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Willy Jaeckel
Fourth canto/First Section: First circle/The unbaptised/Patriarchs/Poets1923

Not on view
Print in black ink on cream paper, robed figures seen from behind moving through tall pale column-like forms under a heavy dark arc, with a glowing oval form at the top center

Willy Jaeckel, Fourth canto/First Section: First circle/The unbaptised/Patriarchs/Poets, 1923, 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
Willy Jaeckel
Title
Fourth canto/First Section: First circle/The unbaptised/Patriarchs/Poets
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1923
Medium
Etching with soft ground and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 4 7/8 x 5 in. (12.4 x 12.7 cm); Sheet: 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (41.8 x 29.8 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
83.1.95.5
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.