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Erich Godal
Revolution1920

Not on view
Drawing in black ink wash and charcoal on white paper, a dense swirl of human figures and animals in dynamic, gestural strokes with high contrast between deep blacks and exposed white paper
Lithograph in dark green-black tones depicting a figure in work clothes descending through a rocky underground shaft, with industrial structures and billowing smoke visible at the top of the composition, rendered in expressive chiaroscuro with rough, grainy texture.
Black and white ink drawing with gestural brushwork depicting a dense crowd of distorted figures, a large central figure with outstretched hands surrounded by writhing bodies and anguished faces emerging from dark, swirling forms.
Lithograph in black and white with expressive, loose draftsmanship; a nude figure stretches upward toward a radiant circular form, arms raised, while a dense crowd of figures surges forward below, some carrying flags, against a dark urban skyline.
Lithograph with bold charcoal-like marks depicting a male figure in a wide-legged, dynamic stance, one arm raised overhead with splayed fingers, against a fragmented dark background on white paper.
Black and white lithograph depicting a mass of nude figures in turbulent, chaotic composition; writhing bodies fill the lower half beneath towering dark, cavernous forms rendered in expressive, gestural strokes; an isolated standing figure appears at lower right.
Black and white lithograph depicting multiple human figures emerging from dense, swirling dark masses. A figure with raised arms appears upper left, while a capped figure at right holds a long implement. Additional figures are nestled within turbulent forms below, rendered with expressive, fluid mark-making against a white ground.
Charcoal drawing of a skeletal figure in military uniform and helmet, surrounded by jagged dark forms suggesting shattered architecture, with cross-shaped fragments in the upper corners; loose, vigorous strokes in black and gray tones on white paper.
Black and white lithograph of a turbulent street scene, with dark angular buildings and bare trees looming over multiple figures in dynamic poses, rendered in expressive gestural marks with strong tonal contrasts.
Black and white lithograph with bold contrast, depicting a chaotic scene of multiple figures in dynamic poses across two levels, set within a dark industrial or architectural interior; expressive, gestural marks define struggling and falling forms.
Black and white lithograph depicting a dense crowd of figures in motion across two registers, with expressive, gestural mark-making; buildings with dark windows visible in the upper background.
Lithograph with dense black ink and expressive gestural marks; a crowd of nude figures fills the lower foreground, writhing and pressing against each other, while jagged vertical forms suggesting flames or destroyed buildings rise in the dark background above.
Black and white lithograph depicting multiple contorted nude figures amid swirling, flame-like forms, with a ladder and architectural ruins in the background; bold, expressionistic brushwork in high contrast.

Erich Godal, Genossenschaft für proletarische Kunst, Marseillaise, 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Erich Godal
Germany, also active United States, 1899-1969
Publisher
Genossenschaft für proletarische Kunst
Germany, Berlin, 1920
Title
Revolution
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1920
Medium
Lithographs on J.W. Zanders 1916 laid paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
AC1992.238.25.1-.13
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.

Copyright
© Erich Godal [or artist's estate]

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