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Johannes Wüsten
Monk1920

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Woodcut portrait in black and white, a man's head in sharp right-facing profile defined by bold carved white outlines against dense black ink with visible wood grain texture

Johannes Wüsten, Monk, 1920, 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
Johannes Wüsten
Title
Monk
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1920
Medium
Lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 5 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (13.97 x 12.06 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
83.1.735q
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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