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Karl Rössing
The imaginary invalid1922

Not on view
Woodcut print of three caricatured male figures with exaggerated angular features, two standing flanking a seated, bandaged man wrapped in heavy drapery

Karl Rössing, The imaginary invalid, 1922, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Karl Rössing
Austria, Gmunden, 1897-1960
Title
The imaginary invalid
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1922
Medium
Woodcut on thick Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in. (19.05 x 13.02 cm) irregular
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.378i
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.