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Jakob Steinhardt
Plagueno date

Not on view
Etching on cream paper depicting a chaotic scene of fallen bodies, skulls, broken crosses, and ruined buildings, with fine and bold black lines; numbered 8/10, signed lower right

Jakob Steinhardt, Plague, no date, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jakob Steinhardt
Title
Plague
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
no date
Medium
Drypoint on Van Gelder Zonen paper
Dimensions
Plate: 7 1/16 x 9 5/16 in. (17.94 x 23.65 cm); Sheet: 9 1/8 x 12 9/16 in. (23.18 x 31.91 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.293c
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.

Copyright
© Courtesy of Josefa Bar-On Steinhardt

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