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Franz Pfemfert
Die Aktion 9, no. 12/13 (19 März 1919)1919

Not on view
Woodcut print magazine cover with bold blackletter masthead reading 'Die Aktion,' featuring an angular woodcut illustration of two abstracted figures, one embracing or pressing against the other, on aged cream paper
Woodcut or linocut print in black on white, two angular stylized figures rendered in flat geometric forms, one kneeling and one standing in an embrace, with bold Expressionist cutting. Latin text at bottom reads 'DIE AKTION · BERLIN · WILMERSD[ORF]'.
Woodcut print in black and white; a seated figure bends forward over a smaller figure in their lap, surrounded by angular, jagged forms with bold contrasting gouged lines; German text in Gothic script at bottom margin.

Franz Pfemfert, Verlag der Wochenschrift Die Aktion, Rüdiger Berlit, Walter O. Grimm, Die Aktion 9, no. 12/13 (19 März 1919), 1919, 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
Rüdiger Berlit
Germany, Leipzig, 1883-1939
Artist or Maker
Walter O. Grimm
Title
Die Aktion 9, no. 12/13 (19 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
83.1.1550a-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.