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Erich Godal
Madhousecirca 1918

Not on view
Woodcut print with bold black ink on cream paper, showing a crowd of figures and a twisting tree among angular city buildings, rendered in jagged, expressive lines

Erich Godal, Madhouse, circa 1918, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Gift of Robert Gore Rifkind, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Erich Godal
Germany, also active United States, 1899-1969
Title
Madhouse
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1918
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 8 13/16 x 6 1/2 in. (22.38 x 16.51 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Gift of Robert Gore Rifkind
Accession Number
AC1992.165.9.11
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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