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Richard Seewald
Ganymed-Portfolio Icirca 1921

Not on view
Print in dense black ink showing a cluster of writhing figures beneath a large dark animal form on the left, with a lone standing male figure in the upper right, rendered in loose, heavily hatched lines
Drypoint print, close-up portrait of a bearded man in three-quarter view, rendered in bold cross-hatched lines on white ground, with a dark fur or heavy collar at the lower edge; cursive signature at lower right.
Etching of an elderly man in a wide-brimmed hat and loose jacket, seated with hands clasped, surrounded by sketchy foliage and small potted plants at right, rendered with expressive hatched lines.
Pen and ink drawing of a figure wrestling a large bull in the foreground, with a second small figure gesturing near a wooden structure at right; mountainous landscape and lightning bolt in the background, executed with energetic cross-hatched linework; signed and dated lower right.
Ink drawing of a standing figure in a wide skirt and fan-shaped headdress, arms crossed over the chest, rendered with loose expressive brushwork in black on cream paper.
Etching of a crowded butcher shop interior, with caricatured figures of customers and shopkeepers rendered in expressive line work; hanging sausages and meats fill the upper right, a pig's head appears at lower left, and German text is visible on a sign in the background; signed in ink at lower right.
Drypoint or etching with dense cross-hatching; a seated figure wearing a brimmed hat reaches outward while three small children cluster around and below, rendered in loose, expressive line work on white paper; a handwritten signature appears at lower right.
Lithograph with loose, expressive linework depicting two women and several young children in an outdoor urban setting, with a multi-story building sketched in the background. A woman in a long skirt holds an infant in the foreground; behind her, another woman bends toward a small child pulling at her hand. A standing child and a crawling child appear at the edges of the composition.
Woodcut print in black and white depicting a village landscape with a domed church tower at left, clustered buildings with angular rooftops, mountain peaks rendered in bold diagonal lines in the background, and a winding path with small figures in the foreground.
Ink drawing of a standing figure in loose robes, rendered with energetic, gestural brushstrokes on cream paper; the face is roughly hatched with exaggerated features, one arm extended outward.
Charcoal and chalk drawing of a woman seated outdoors, head bowed and hands clasped in her lap, wearing a dark bodice and full reddish-brown skirt, with a tree trunk and sketched buildings in the background.
Ink drawing of a hunched, disheveled figure seated and clutching a rectangular frame or stretcher, rendered with rapid, scratchy linework on white paper.
Drypoint etching of a wooded lakeside landscape, with densely hatched bare trees and branches framing a calm reflective body of water, executed in energetic, gestural line work in black ink on white paper, with a handwritten signature in pencil below the plate mark.

Max Slevogt, After the Barque of Dante by Delacroix, circa 1921, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Richard Seewald
Germany, also active Italy and Switzerland 1889-1976
Artist or Maker
Max Slevogt
Artist or Maker
Max Unold
Artist or Maker
Lovis Corinth
Artist or Maker
Bernhard Kretzschmar
Artist or Maker
Alfred Kubin
Artist or Maker
Rudolf Grossmann
Artist or Maker
Max Beckmann
Artist or Maker
Adolf Ferdinand Schinnerer
Artist or Maker
Karl Hofer
Artist or Maker
René Beeh
Title
Ganymed-Portfolio I
Place Made
Germany, Munich
Date Made
circa 1921
Medium
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Dimensions
Overall: 20 x 14 in. (50.8 x 35.56 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.377a-m
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies