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Stefan Eggeler
Walpurgisnacht1921

Not on view
Etching or drypoint print, dark interior scene with four figures — three nude women and a stooped elderly clothed figure — gathered around a glowing furnace opening, with a ghostly face looming in shadow above
Intaglio print with dense black cross-hatching; multiple contorted figures playing instruments, including a large upright bass at center, set against a dark, shadowy background with jagged tree-like forms.
Intaglio print with dense cross-hatching; a nude female figure seated atop a large dark form, bathed in white light, presides over a crowd of robed figures and smaller nude figures in the foreground, with shadowy onlookers at right; German text in lower left margin.

Stefan Eggeler, How the witches anoint themselves so they can fly, 1921, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Stefan Eggeler
Title
Walpurgisnacht
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921
Medium
Six etchings printed in green on heavy wove paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.287.15a-f
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.