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Ernst Barlach
Beggar majesty1919

Not on view
Woodcut print, two large bearded men in striped robes on a raised platform above a crowd, one figure with a skeletal hand gripping a lectern
Artist or Maker
Ernst Barlach
Title
Beggar majesty
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919
Medium
Woodcut on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image (Image): 5 9/16 x 4 7/8 in. (14.1288 x 12.3825 cm) Image (image): 5 9/16 x 4 7/8 in. (14.13 x 12.38 cm) Frame: 20 × 15 × 1 in. (50.8 × 38.1 × 2.54 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
83.1.6.2d
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.