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Ernst Barlach
The erlking 11924

Not on view
Lithograph with bold, smudged black crayon lines showing a cloaked figure bending over a woman clutching an infant, flanked by two looming dark forms
Artist or Maker
Ernst Barlach
Title
The erlking 1
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1924
Medium
Lithograph on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image (Image): 9 15/16 x 7 13/16 in. (25.2413 x 19.8438 cm) Sheet (Sheet): 13 13/16 x 9 13/16 in. (35.0838 x 24.9238 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
83.1.33.2m
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.