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Ernst Barlach
Higher instruction1912

Not on view
Lithograph in heavy black ink showing a bearded seated figure leaning toward a second figure lying wrapped in thick fabric, against a densely hatched black background
Artist or Maker
Ernst Barlach
Title
Higher instruction
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1912
Medium
Lithograph on Van Gelder paper
Dimensions
Image: 6 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (16.19 x 22.23 cm); Sheet: 20 1/8 x 26 in. (51.12 x 66.04 cm)
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
83.1.2.2f
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.