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Franz Pfemfert
Die Aktion 8, no. 13/14 (6 April 1918)1918

Not on view
Linocut print of an abstracted landscape with bold black geometric and diagonal shapes on cream paper, with small bird and human silhouettes
Woodcut print in black and white; two robed figures lean over a recumbent figure, with bold angular carving and radiating lines filling the background. German text visible at lower right.

Otto Freundlich, Landscape, circa 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

Editor
Franz Pfemfert
Germany, also active Mexico, 1879-1954
Publisher
Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion
Artist or Maker
Otto Freundlich
Germany, also active France 1878-1943
Artist or Maker
Emil Maetzel
Title
Die Aktion 8, no. 13/14 (6 April 1918)
Place Made
Germany, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Date Made
1918
Medium
Periodical with one linocut and one woodcut on wove paper
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
83.1.1532a-b
Classification
Periodicals
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.