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Collections

Moriz Melzer
Lightning over Mittelberg (Gewitter über Mittelberg)1919

Not on view
Woodcut or woodblock print of an angular cityscape with a tall church spire, geometric rooftops, and sweeping pale yellow diagonal forms against a dark midnight-blue sky with a yellow crescent moon
Artist or Maker
Moriz Melzer
Title
Lightning over Mittelberg (Gewitter über Mittelberg)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919
Medium
Monotype and oil on paper
Dimensions
Image and sheet: 51 1/8 x 35 in. (129.86 x 88.9 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA, in honor of the museum's 40th anniversary
Accession Number
M.2006.18
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Benson, Timothy O. Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2023.