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Otto Hettner
The Comedycirca 1917

Not on view
Lithograph with bold, smudged black lines depicting a chaotic multi-figure scene with a prone figure, muscular figures, a violinist, and a horse

Otto Hettner, The Comedy, circa 1917, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Otto Hettner
Germany, Dresden, 1875-1931
Title
The Comedy
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1917
Medium
Lithograph on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 8 1/4 x 12 3/16 in. (20.96 x 30.96 cm); Sheet: 9 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. (24.77 x 36.83 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.384.18
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.