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Rudolf Grossmann
Caliban 1circa 1917

Not on view
Charcoal drawing of a heavily muscled nude male figure crouching and straining upward, arms raised, with loose gestural strokes and a smaller sketched figure to the left

Rudolf Grossmann, Caliban 1, circa 1917, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Rudolf Grossmann
Germany, also active France, 1882-1941
Title
Caliban 1
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1917
Medium
Lithograph printed in brown
Dimensions
Image: 14 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. (37.47 x 27.62 cm) irregular; Sheet: 18 1/4 x 13 7/8 in. (46.36 x 35.24 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.384.8
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.

  • Jentsch, Ralph. Richard Seewald: das graphische Werk. Esslingen: Verlag Kunstgalerie Esslingen, 1973.
  • 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.