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Georg A. Mathéy
Burning citycirca 1916

Not on view
Woodcut or linocut print in stark black and white showing five figures amid collapsing angular structures and radiating jagged lines suggesting explosion or collapse

Georg A. Mathéy, Burning city, circa 1916, 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
Georg A. Mathéy
Hungary, also active Greece and Germany, 1884-1968
Title
Burning city
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1916
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. (25.08 x 19.68 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
83.1.1516b
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.