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Franz Pfemfert
Die Aktion 14, Heft 3, no. 5/6, (31 März 1924)1924

Not on view
Cover of Die Aktion periodical, printed in black on aged cream paper, with gothic title lettering, dense German text columns, and a central expressionist woodcut of angular figures clustered around crosses
Woodcut print on a magazine page, three caricatured figures in angular Expressionist style; a tall man in a top hat gestures at a wide-eyed figure at left, while a stout man wearing a cap labeled 'SPD' stands at right; bold German text 'WÄHLT' repeats vertically in the background.
Woodcut print on a magazine page with German text, depicting two standing male figures: one facing forward holding papers, the other seen from behind near a toilet. Bold black lines with high contrast, expressionist style. Caption text in German below.

Franz Pfemfert, Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion, Franz M. Jansen, Die Aktion 14, Heft 3, no. 5/6, (31 März 1924), 1924, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Gift of Robert Gore Rifkind, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Editor
Franz Pfemfert
Germany, also active Mexico, 1879-1954
Publisher
Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion
Artist or Maker
Franz M. Jansen
Germany, Cologne, 1885-1958
Title
Die Aktion 14, Heft 3, no. 5/6, (31 März 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
AC1992.165.64.1-.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.