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Jakob Steinhardt
Nine woodcuts to selected verses from the book Jeschu ben Elieser ben Sirah1929

Not on view
Woodcut print with bold black lines depicting a hunched figure at a candlelit table indoors, with a night scene showing a crescent moon, bare tree, and silhouetted figures outside
Woodcut print in black and white with bold, expressive linework. Upper half features large distorted faces with bared teeth looming over a chaotic scene of fragmented buildings and writhing serpentine forms. Lower half shows several smaller figures in dark clothing in an interior setting, rendered with heavy crosshatching.
Artist or Maker
Jakob Steinhardt
Poland, also active Israel, 1887-1968
Title
Nine woodcuts to selected verses from the book Jeschu ben Elieser ben Sirah
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1929
Medium
Printed material and nine woodcuts on laid paper
Dimensions
Sheets: 10 7/8 x 7 1/4 in. (27.6 x 18.4 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
83.1.192a-i
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.

  • 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.