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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Two women in black1918

Not on view
Vertical woodcut print with two abstracted standing figures rendered in bold white lines against a dark black ground with visible wood grain texture

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Two women in black, 1918, 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
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Title
Two women in black
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1918
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (16.51 x 8.89 cm); Sheet: 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 in. (21.3 x 13.3 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
83.1.179d
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.

  • Schapire, Rosa. Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs graphisches Werk bis 1923. Berlin: Euphorion Verlag, 1924.
  • 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.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn