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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt a. M.: Graphics by E. L. Kirchner1920

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Woodcut print in black ink on pale gray-blue paper, two angular stylized figures amid jagged plant forms and a turbulent sky, with printed text identifying Ludwig Schames Frankfurt and E.L. Kirchner
Woodcut print in black and white depicting three angular, abstracted standing figures with jagged, fragmented forms and bold ink strokes. Latin-alphabet text appears at top and bottom of the composition.
Artist or Maker
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Title
Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt a. M.: Graphics by E. L. Kirchner
Place Made
Germany, Frankfurt
Date Made
1920
Medium
Printed material and three woodcuts on wove paper and cover stock
Dimensions
Overall: 11 1/16 x 8 7/8 in. (28 x 22.5 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
83.1.113a-c
Classification
Books
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.

  • Dübe, Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter. Das graphische Werk. München : Prestel, 1980.
  • 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.