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Herbert Anger
Tormentcirca 1919

Not on view
Woodcut print in black ink on cream paper, expressionistic figures with open mouths and splayed hands pressed against vertical bars, high contrast with angular white lines

Herbert Anger, Torment, circa 1919, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Gift of Robert Gore Rifkind, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Herbert Anger
Germany, Magdeburg, 1892-1945
Title
Torment
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1919
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 4 11/16 x 3 5/16 in. (11.9 x 8.3 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Gift of Robert Gore Rifkind
Accession Number
AC1992.165.14.4
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.

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