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Wilhelm Geissler
Ex Libriscirca 1924

Not on view
Printed page with German verse in blackletter type above an octagonal expressionist woodcut bookplate showing a crouching nude child with a bird perched on its back, surrounded by text reading 'AUS DER BÜCHEREI VON ALBA TAU'

Wilhelm Geissler, Ex Libris, circa 1924, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Wilhelm Geissler
Title
Ex Libris
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1924
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 2 9/16 x 2 3/16 in. (6.5 x 5.55 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.549r
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • 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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