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Georg Tappert
The sleepwalker1920

Not on view
Woodcut print on cream paper, crowd of figures in bold black lines pressing forward, with bicycle wheels visible among them; edition number and signature in pencil below
Woodcut print in black and white depicting a dense crowd of robed figures beneath gnarled, branching trees, with angular, fragmented forms filling the composition. Bold carved lines and stark contrasts create a compressed, energetic scene. Edition number and signature visible below image.
Black and white print depicting a dense, chaotic cluster of abstracted human figures with bold black lines and angular, fragmented forms suggesting a crowd or struggle.
Woodcut print in black and white depicting a dense crowd of figures with bold, angular carving; spotlights or rays descend from the upper center onto the tightly packed mass of human forms below.
Woodcut or linocut print in black and white depicting a dense cluster of human and skull-like figures arranged in a circular composition, with bold expressionist lines and high contrast. Edition number and signature visible in pencil below.
Woodcut print in black and white, densely composed with fragmented human faces, mask-like forms, a reclining figure, and circular eye motifs crowded across the picture plane, with bold contrasts and expressionistic gouged lines. Edition number 53/130 inscribed at lower left.
Woodcut print in black and white depicting a chaotic outdoor scene with helmeted figures, horses, and a village with a tower in the background, surrounded by swirling abstract forms, radiating sun motifs, and jagged diagonal lines, rendered with bold expressionist carving.
Woodcut print in black and white, two standing figures in robes facing each other amid densely carved, angular foliage and swirling forms, with bold contrasting areas of solid black and white linework. Edition number and signature in pencil below.
Artist or Maker
Georg Tappert
Title
The sleepwalker
Place Made
Germany, Düsseldorf
Date Made
1920
Medium
Eight woodcuts on copperplate paper
Dimensions
Sheets: 18 3/4 x 15 1/8 in. (47.63 x 38.42 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
83.1.17a-h
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.

  • 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.