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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

Karl Jakob Hirsch, Despair, 1915, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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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