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Karl Jakob Hirsch
Madman1922

Not on view
Etching on gray paper of a grotesque hunched figure with an oversized head, wide staring eyes, and open mouth, leaning on a walking stick with a carved bird-head handle
Artist or Maker
Karl Jakob Hirsch
Title
Madman
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1922
Medium
Etching, drypoint and aquatint on heavy brownish laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 7 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (20 x 16.51 cm); Sheet: 14 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (36.51 x 26.99 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.92
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.
  • Rigby, Ida Katherine. An alle Künstler! : War-Revolution-Weimar : German Expressionist Prints, Drawings, Posters and Periodicals from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. San Diego : San Diego State University Press, 1983.