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Jakob Steinhardt
Red and glowing is the eye of the Jew1920

Not on view
Etching or drypoint print of a crowd of bearded older men with deeply lined faces gathered in an urban street, rendered in loose expressive black lines on cream paper, dated 1917
Etching of two elderly figures facing each other in animated conversation, rendered with expressive, gestural line work against a loosely sketched interior background. Hebrew letters visible at upper right.
Artist or Maker
Jakob Steinhardt
Poland, also active Israel, 1887-1968
Title
Red and glowing is the eye of the Jew
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1920
Medium
Printed material and nine drypoints on laid paper
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
83.1.651a-i
Classification
Books
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.

Copyright
© Courtesy of Josefa Bar-On Steinhardt