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Karl Hofer
The nest1921

Not on view
Print from a bound volume showing two seated figures leaning together, rendered in bold gestural black lines with flat ink fills, monogram 'CH' lower right
Ink drawing of two seated figures in close embrace, rendered with expressive, gestural brushwork in black on white; simplified facial features, intertwined limbs, with a monogram signature at lower right.
Book illustration in black ink: two figures drawn with loose, expressive lines, one reclining with head tilted back, the other leaning over them, set against a page of German text.
Artist or Maker
Karl Hofer
Title
The nest
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921
Medium
Lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 10 13/16 x 9 3/16 in. (27.46 x 23.34 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
83.1.816c
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.

  • Rathenau, Ernest. Karl Hofer : das graphische Werk / herausgegeben von Ernest Rathenau ; mit einer Einleitung von Kurt Martin. New York : Ernest Rathenau, 1969
  • 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.