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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The murderer1914

Not on view
Print in black and crimson red on cream paper, standing dark-robed figure looming over a reclining nude figure in an interior space

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The murderer, 1914, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Title
The murderer
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1914
Medium
Lithograph printed in red, and black on heavy smooth cardboard
Dimensions
Image: 20 1/8 x 23 3/8 in. ( 51.0 x 59.4 cm); Sheet: 20 11/16 x 23 5/8 in. (52.5 x 60.0 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.112
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.
  • Dübe, Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter. Das graphische Werk. München : Prestel, 1980.

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