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Franz M. Jansen
Quitting Time1920, published 1921

Not on view
Print with energetic black hatched lines on cream paper, showing a dense crowd of figures moving through a industrial setting with smokestacks and factory buildings

Franz M. Jansen, Fritz Gurlitt Verlag, Quitting Time, 1920, published 1921, 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
Franz M. Jansen
Germany, Cologne, 1885-1958
Publisher
Fritz Gurlitt Verlag
Germany, Berlin
Title
Quitting Time
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1920, published 1921
Medium
Etching and drypoint on Japan paper
Dimensions
Plate: 7 1/4 × 9 9/16 in. (18.42 × 24.29 cm) Sheet: 12 11/16 × 18 7/8 in. (32.23 × 47.94 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
83.1.12j
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.

  • Rigby, Ida Katherine. An alle Künstler! : War-Revolution-Weimar : German Expressionist Prints, Drawings, Posters and Periodicals from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. San Diego : San Diego State University Press, 1983.
  • Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
Selected Exhibition History
  • Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023

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