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Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion
Die Aktion 14, Heft 12, no. 21, (mid November 1924)1924

Not on view
Woodcut-style print magazine cover with bold masthead reading 'Die Aktion,' featuring a skeletal horned rider on a rearing animal above the year 1924, printed in dark ink on cream paper
Printed magazine cover with German text header "Die Aktion" in bold display type; woodcut illustration below shows a skeletal or demonic figure astride a rearing animal, with the year 1924 in large numerals; dark ink on cream paper
Printed magazine spread with large bold masthead reading 'DIE AKTION,' dated Mitte November 1924. A woodcut-style illustration in black ink shows a row of abstracted human figures with raised arms above dense German text in two columns.
Woodcut-style print of a horse's head in black ink, with bold graphic lines and a wild, angular expression, printed on a page from the German publication Die Aktion. German text and caption appear below the image.
Magazine spread with German text in two columns, pages 609–610, featuring bold black expressionist ink figures in the upper right corner — abstract interlocking human-like forms with angular, gestural lines.
Woodcut print depicting a crowd of stylized figures with skeletal and masked faces rendered in stark black and white, captioned 'Berliner Parteipaffe auf dem Stimmenfang' below.
Woodcut print in black and white showing two figures in angular, expressionist style; a tall figure in a dark coat and hat looms over a smaller crouching figure. German text columns and a bold Gothic-script heading surround the illustration.
Woodcut print on a printed journal page, showing two skeletal figures in black ink beside large bold text reading 'Wir dürfen wählen,' with caption text below in German
Woodcut-style print on a magazine page, depicting a group of caricatured figures in exaggerated poses, rendered in bold black lines with high contrast. A tall central figure gestures dramatically while surrounded by other distorted figures. German text caption below reads 'Parlamentarismus ist maskierter weißer Schrecken!'
Woodcut print from a German periodical, two caricatured figures in suits and top hats standing before a neoclassical building, with a pile of skulls and bones in the lower right; bold black lines and high contrast typical of Expressionist printmaking.
Black and white illustration of a donkey in profile facing right, printed in a German-language periodical, with caption text 'Rüdiger Berlit' and 'Mäh, ich wähle!' below
Publisher
Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion
Germany, also active Mexico, 1879-1954
Editor
Franz Pfemfert
Germany, Leipzig, 1883-1939
Artist or Maker
Rüdiger Berlit
Artist or Maker
Franz M. Jansen
Title
Die Aktion 14, Heft 12, no. 21, (mid November 1924)
Place Made
Germany, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Date Made
1924
Medium
Periodical with ten woodcuts by wove paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Gift of Robert Gore Rifkind
Accession Number
AC1992.165.72.1-.10
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.