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Erich Büttner
Kriegszeit, no. 8 (14 October 1914)1914

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Print cover of 'Kriegszeit Künstlerflugblätter,' No. 8, October 1914, with a loose ink illustration of soldiers crouching with rifles along a street barricade, buildings in the distance
Pen-and-ink print with two sketches. Top, labeled 'INDIEN': a standing figure in long robes and hat, with a flock of sheep and a town in the background; handwritten text in German script at right. Bottom, labeled 'FRANZ.-AFRIKA': a figure with a rifle gestures beside sheep in a sparse landscape, with palm trees in the distance.
Pen and ink sketch page with three vignettes of World War I military scenes: soldiers prone in a field at top, a single soldier in spiked helmet advancing through rocky terrain in the middle, and a group with a vintage automobile among trees at bottom. Handwritten German annotations throughout, with a signature at lower right.
Lithograph depicting a biplane in flight over a densely built cityscape, with explosions erupting below; loose, energetic linework; German text caption at bottom reads "Über Paris" with a date of 1914.

Rudolf Grossmann, Street battle, 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
Erich Büttner
Artist or Maker
Various German Artists
Artist or Maker
Rudolf Grossmann
Artist or Maker
August Gaul
Artist or Maker
Helmuth Stockmann
Title
Kriegszeit, no. 8 (14 October 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
83.1.1407a-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.