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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Love scene1908

Not on view
Color woodcut or lithograph, two nude figures embracing, printed in canary yellow and burnt orange with hatched marks on cream paper

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Love scene, 1908, 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
Love scene
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1908
Medium
Lithograph printed in olive green, orange and yellow on heavy Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 15 5/8 x 13 in. (39.69 x 33.02 cm); Sheet: 17 1/8 x 15 3/8 in. (43.5 x 39.05 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.110
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.
  • Benson, Timothy O. Expressionism in Germany and France: from Van Gogh to Kandinsky. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2014.
  • Benson, Timothy O. L'Expressionnisme en Allemagne et en France : De van Gogh à Kandinsky. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2014.

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