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Josef Eberz
The prophetcirca 1918

Not on view
Expressionist woodcut portrait, waist-up figure with angular fragmented face and interlaced hands, surrounded by jagged radiating black lines, cream paper

Josef Eberz, The prophet, circa 1918, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Josef Eberz
Title
The prophet
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1918
Medium
Woodcut on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (27.31 x 19.69 cm); Sheet: 14 7/16 x 11 13/16 in. (36.67 x 30 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.287.13
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.

  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.