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Georg Tappert
Silencecirca 1911

Not on view
Woodcut print of a close-up male face in stark black and white, with angular faceted planes, heavy brows, closed eyes, mustache, and short beard
Woodcut print on a magazine page: close-up of a face with hands pressed over the mouth, rendered in bold black lines with high contrast against pale paper.
Woodcut print, close-up frontal portrait of a bearded figure with short dark hair, rendered in bold black and white with angular, deeply gouged lines and Expressionist stylization; printed on a yellowed book page with a caption in German script below.
Artist or Maker
Georg Tappert
Title
Silence
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1911
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 9 11/16 x 6 3/4 in. (24.61 x 17.15 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
83.1.1485a
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.