The eagle: 'Blessed are the dead'

© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, Vevey / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / PROLITTERIS, Switzerland
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The eagle: 'Blessed are the dead'

Alternate Title: Der Adler: "Selig sind die Toten"
Edition: From the deluxe edition of 25
Portfolio (orig. lang.): O Ewigkeit-du Donnerwort: Bachkantate
Portfolio (translation): O eternity-thou thundering word: Bach cantata
Plate: plate 9

Germany, 1914
Prints; lithographs
Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paper
Image: 13 7/8 x 11 7/16 in. (35.24 x 29.05 cm) irregular; Sheet: 26 1/2 x 20 1/16 in. (67.31 x 50.96 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.168i)
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Wingler, Hans Maria; Welz, Friedrich. O. Kokoschka: das druckgraphische Werk. Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1975.
  • 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.
  • Wingler, Hans Maria; Welz, Friedrich. O. Kokoschka: das druckgraphische Werk. Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1975.
  • 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.

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

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