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Gustav Wolf
The first daycirca 1913

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Woodcut print with jagged black forms radiating around a blazing white center, on cream paper, titled 'Der erste Tag' in German below

Gustav Wolf, The first day, circa 1913, 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
Gustav Wolf
Title
The first day
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1913
Medium
Lithograph handcolored with aqua, red and yellow watercolor on J. W. Zanders paper
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/8 x 7 in. (23.18 x 17.78 cm); Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 1/4 in. (50.17 x 38.74 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
83.1.200a
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.

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