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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Heads 11911

Not on view
Woodcut print with two angular, fragmented heads in bold black and white, dense wood-grain texture visible throughout, signed and dated in lower left margin

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Heads 1, 1911, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Title
Heads 1
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1911
Medium
Woodcut on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (49.53 x 39.05 cm); Sheet: 21 5/8 x 17 5/8 in. (54.93 x 44.77 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.262
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.

  • Schapire, Rosa. Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs graphisches Werk bis 1923. Berlin: Euphorion Verlag, 1924.
  • 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.
  • Thiem, Gunther. Prints by Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: A Centenary Celebration. Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Los Angeles, 1985.

  • 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.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn