The Prison Guard

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© Nachlass Erich Heckel/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG BILD-KUNST, Bonn
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The Prison Guard

Alternate Title: Der Wärter
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Die Ballade vom Zuchthaus zu Reading
Portfolio (translation): The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Plate: plate 5

Germany, 1907
Prints; woodcuts
Woodcut on handmade paper
Image: 8 1/4 x 5 7/8 in. (20.96 x 14.92 cm); Sheet: 14 5/16 x 8 11/16 in. (36.35 x 22.07 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.87e)
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Not currently on public view

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  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art:  the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection:  prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
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