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Karl Jakob Hirsch
Despair1915

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Etching with three figures amid slashing diagonal lines and a halo-like arc, rendered in dense cross-hatching on cream paper, signed and dated 1915
Artist or Maker
Karl Jakob Hirsch
Title
Despair
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1915
Medium
Etching and drypoint on heavy brownish laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 7 3/4 x 5 7/8 in. (19.69 x 14.92 cm); Sheet: 13 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. (35.24 x 26.35 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.89
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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.

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