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Max Oppenheimer
Ten etchings to Gustave Flaubert's 'Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitable'20th century

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Etching or drypoint print of a nude male figure with long flowing hair, arm raised holding a staff, wrapped by a coiling form, surrounded by dense swirling black lines
Intaglio print of a decaying animal carcass with antlers, rendered in fine crosshatched lines against a white ground; splayed limbs and scattered bones extend outward with dynamic hatched lines suggesting motion or impact; numbered 5/80 with a handwritten signature at lower right.
Intaglio print depicting a wild boar and a deer in dynamic confrontation amid a snow-covered winter forest, with bare trees and dense crosshatched linework; a small dog appears in the lower foreground. Numbered 9/30 and signed in pencil.
Etching with fine hatched lines depicting two nude figures surrounded by dense foliage; light tones dominate with dark plate-mark border; numbered 5/30 at lower left with initials at lower right.
Etching of a hilltop castle with round towers perched on a rocky outcrop, surrounded by trees, with radiating diagonal lines in the sky above and a broad valley landscape below; numbered 5/30 at lower left with a signature at lower right.
Etching depicting a dense, swirling mass of lions and other large cats in combat, rendered with fine cross-hatched lines; numbered 5/30 in pencil at lower left.
Intaglio print, numbered edition, depicting two figures in close embrace aloft above a landscape; a nude standing figure is held from behind by a clothed figure, both rendered with fine crosshatched lines against a dark sky.
Intaglio print, edition 5/30, two nude figures rendered in fine crosshatched lines; one reclines while a second leans over, both depicted with delicate line work against a dark, hatched background.
Etching of a crested bird of prey perched on a rocky outcrop, facing left in three-quarter view, with detailed feather rendering and fine crosshatching. A wide landscape with rolling terrain stretches across the background. Edition number and signature visible in lower margins.
Etching title page with hand-lettered German text above a lightly sketched bow, arrows, and leafy branches; publisher imprint at bottom.
Artist or Maker
Max Oppenheimer
Title
Ten etchings to Gustave Flaubert's 'Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitable'
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
20th century
Medium
Ten drypoints on laid paper
Dimensions
Sheets: 19 11/16 x 13 in. (50 x 33 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
83.1.163a-j
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.