LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2025

Museum Hours

Monday

11 am–6 pm

Tuesday

11 am–6 pm

Wednesday

Closed

Thursday

11 am–6 pm

Friday

11 am–8 pm

Saturday

10 am–7 pm

Sunday

10 am–7 pm

 

  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Building LACMA
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2025
Collections

Ernst Barlach
The transformations of God: Seven woodcuts1920-1921

Not on view
Woodcut print of a bearded man leaning over a large open book, surrounded by swirling black-and-white hatched forms suggesting wind or clouds
Woodcut print in black and white depicting a robed, bearded figure with long flowing hair, crouching or lunging diagonally across a cityscape of Gothic spires and cathedral facades, with bold carved lines and high contrast.
Woodcut print in black and white; two robed, bearded figures in the foreground face a chaotic scene of contorted figures and crossed swords, rendered with dense parallel hatching and bold carved lines.
Black and white woodcut or linocut print with bold, deeply incised lines depicting multiple robed figures in a dynamic composition; a large bearded figure dominates the center, with smaller figures gesturing and crowding the lower foreground against a heavily hatched background.
Woodcut print in black and white; a bearded, cloaked figure at left faces a winged figure at right amid rocky terrain, rendered with bold, energetic parallel line cutting.
Woodcut print of a bearded elderly man reclining among rocky outcroppings, hands clasped, wearing draped robes, with bold parallel hatching lines throughout and a mountainous landscape in the background.
Artist or Maker
Ernst Barlach
Title
The transformations of God: Seven woodcuts
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1920-1921
Medium
Seven woodcuts on Japan paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.7a-g
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.

  • Schult, Friedrich. Ernst Barlach, das graphische Werk. Hrsg. mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Akademie der Künste zu Berlin. Series: His Ernest Barlach Werkverzeichnis, Bd. 2. Hamburg: E. Hauswedell, 1958.