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Collections

Fritz Schaefler
Portrait of Buttingcirca 1919

Not on view
Expressionist woodcut portrait, close-cropped man's face in bold black and white with angular, fragmented forms and geometric lines; inscribed 'M. Bütting 1919'

Fritz Schaefler, Portrait of Butting, circa 1919, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Fritz Schaefler
Title
Portrait of Butting
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1919
Medium
Lithograph on J. W. Zanders paper
Dimensions
Image: 12 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. (32.7 x 23.81 cm); Sheet: 16 15/16 x 11 1/4 in. (43.02 x 28.58 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
83.1.18e
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.