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Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion
Die Aktion 9, no. 8/9 (1 März 1919)1919

Not on view
Printed magazine cover with blackletter title 'Die Aktion,' featuring a bold woodcut of angular, abstracted figures in violent motion beneath a radiating sun
Woodblock print in black and white with bold, gestural carving; dynamic composition of abstracted human and animal figures in motion, radiating lines suggesting a sun or burst of light in the upper left, figures scattered across a dark ground.
Woodcut print with black ground and white lines depicting a dynamic, fragmented scene of figures and diagonal forms radiating from a circular shape in the upper right corner, with bold expressive cuts and angular marks throughout.
Publisher
Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion
Editor
Franz Pfemfert
Germany, also active Mexico, 1879-1954
Artist or Maker
Bruno Beye
Germany, also active France, 1895-1976
Title
Die Aktion 9, no. 8/9 (1 März 1919)
Place Made
Germany, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Date Made
1919
Medium
Periodical with two woodcuts 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
83.1.1548a-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.