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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Man reading1921

Not on view
Woodcut print of a single hunched figure with bowed head and raised hand, rendered in bold white lines against a black ground, with the word 'BRUST' at upper right
Woodcut print in black and white depicting a seated figure in a wide-brimmed hat, head bowed forward, rendered with bold angular cuts and heavy contrast; the word "BRUST" inscribed at right.
Woodcut print of a hunched figure in black and white, with bold angular lines and high contrast; the word "BRUST" visible at upper right, printed on a right-hand page opposite a column of German text.
Artist or Maker
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Title
Man reading
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 11 x 7 13/16 in. (27.9 x 19.8 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
83.1.817a
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.

  • Schapire, Rosa. Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs graphisches Werk bis 1923. Berlin: Euphorion Verlag, 1924.
  • 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.