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Karl Lorenz
Understand1931

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Woodcut-style print with white hand-lettered German text on a black background, featuring a decorative block-letter initial 'G' in the upper left corner

Karl Lorenz, Understand, 1931, 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
Karl Lorenz
Title
Understand
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1931
Medium
Woodcut, handcolored with gold, brown and purple watercolor on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (31.75 x 24.13 cm); Sheet: 18 7/8 x 12 9/16 in. (47.94 x 31.91 cm)
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
AC1992.237.18.8
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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