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Walter Friedrich Richard Jacob
Self1920

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Woodcut portrait of a man's face filling the composition, rendered in bold black ink with jagged white gouged lines against a nearly solid black background

Walter Friedrich Richard Jacob, Self, 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Walter Friedrich Richard Jacob
Title
Self
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1920
Medium
Woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 7 7/8 x 11 13/16 in. (20 x 30 cm); Sheet: 23 3/4 x 17 11/16 in. (60.33 x 44.93 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
AC1992.238.30
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie et al., German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.

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