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Otto Hettner
Kriegszeit, no. 2 (7 September 1914)1914

Not on view
Black and white print of a dense outdoor crowd with raised arms and hats, a lone figure standing elevated above them, signed H. Baluschek
Pencil or charcoal drawing with two vignettes separated by a line of German cursive script. Top scene: a rooster and hippopotamus face off on a flat plain, with a bear at left and two tall rock formations topped by perched birds in the center. Bottom scene: a large eagle with spread wings swoops over a bear, with a smaller bird on the ground nearby. Loose, gestural linework throughout.
Lithograph broadside with title 'Germania an ihre Kinder' in decorative lettering at top; charcoal-style illustration of a reclining allegorical female figure gesturing above columns of German text in Gothic script, with a crowd scene rendered in dark, energetic strokes at right; text attributed to Heinrich von Kleist at bottom.

Hans Baluschek, Messenger of victory on the public clock, circa 1914, 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

Artist or Maker
Otto Hettner
Artist or Maker
Various German Artists
Artist or Maker
Max Liebermann
Artist or Maker
Hans Baluschek
Artist or Maker
August Gaul
Title
Kriegszeit, no. 2 (7 September 1914)
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1914
Medium
Printed material and four lithographs on wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 3/16 x 13 in. (48.60 x 33.00 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
83.1.1401a-d
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.