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Franz Pfemfert
Die Aktion 8, no. 15/16 (20 Apr. 1918)1918

Not on view
Magazine spread from 'Die Aktion' with dense German text and an expressionist woodcut illustration of a cross surrounded by angular skeletal and architectural forms
Woodcut print of a landscape with dark, heavily contrasted black forms suggesting trees and fields beneath a dramatic sky, with bold expressionist linework.
Printed exhibition announcement featuring a woodcut landscape of clustered buildings with steep angular rooftops, rendered in bold black lines with hatched textures; German text surrounds the image above and below.
Editor
Franz Pfemfert
Germany, also active Mexico, 1879-1954
Publisher
Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion
Artist or Maker
Ines Wetzel
Germany, Berlin, 1878-1940
Artist or Maker
Various German Artists
Artist or Maker
Erich Gehre
Artist or Maker
Mitzi Friedmann-Otten
Title
Die Aktion 8, no. 15/16 (20 Apr. 1918)
Place Made
Germany, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Date Made
1918
Medium
Periodical with three woodcuts on wove paper
Dimensions
See individual entries
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Gift of Robert Gore Rifkind
Accession Number
AC1992.165.5.1-.3
Classification
Periodicals
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.