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Wilhelm Kohlhoff
The Playcirca 1917

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Black and white print with multiple draped figures in dramatic poses, one crouching at center, one with arms raised to the left, swirling dark background

Wilhelm Kohlhoff, The Play, circa 1917, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Wilhelm Kohlhoff
Germany, Berlin, 1893-1971
Title
The Play
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1917
Medium
Lithograph on brown Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 10 11/16 x 9 7/16 in. (27.15 x 23.97 cm) irregular; Sheet: 16 x 10 1/2 in. (40.64 x 26.67 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.384.17
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.

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