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Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion
Die Aktion 14, Heft 11, no. 19/20, (end October 1924)1924

Not on view
Woodcut-style print cover of 'Die Aktion' journal, featuring a rotund tuxedoed figure beside a placard with German political slogans and a small crouching figure
Printed magazine cover with bold black woodcut-style illustration on aged cream paper. A rotund figure in formal dress stands at left beside German text reading 'Wähle mich!' At right, a hunched figure crouches near a ballot box beneath the words 'Prolet! ich kenne deine Not.' Header reads 'Die Aktion' in decorative blackletter type.
Woodcut print on a printed magazine page: a bold black silhouette of a raised fist and fragmented figure against white, with large German text reading 'WÄHLEN IST SELBSTMORD' arranged in jagged vertical columns.
Publisher
Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion
Germany, also active Mexico, 1879-1954
Editor
Franz Pfemfert
Germany, Leipzig, 1883-1939
Artist or Maker
Rüdiger Berlit
Title
Die Aktion 14, Heft 11, no. 19/20, (end October 1924)
Place Made
Germany, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Date Made
1924
Medium
Periodical with two woodcuts on wove paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Gift of Robert Gore Rifkind
Accession Number
AC1992.165.71.1-.2
Classification
Periodicals
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.