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August Gaul
Kriegszeit, no. 11 (4 November 1914)1914

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Lithographic print, front page of Kriegszeit Künstlerflugblätter No. 11, November 1914, with a gestural illustration of a large bird attacking a crouching bear, surrounded by German blackletter and serif type
Lithograph depicting a chaotic battle scene with dense crowds of soldiers advancing across a landscape, rendered in loose, energetic linework. A tall diagonal flagpole dominates the center foreground; broken crosses, bare trees, and rubble scatter the foreground. Heavy charcoal shading suggests smoke-filled skies above ruined structures in the background.
Print with two sketched animal vignettes and a block of German text. Upper vignette: two dark, hunched boar-like creatures facing each other in a confrontational stance. Lower vignette: a spotted feline, rendered in lighter strokes, lying low and elongated. Gothic script text centered between the vignettes.
Charcoal or lithograph portrait of a man in close-up, head and shoulders, wearing a military uniform and a bandage wrapped around his head, rendered with loose expressive mark-making. German text caption below.

August Gaul, Animal fable, 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
August Gaul
Artist or Maker
Erich Büttner
Artist or Maker
Various German Artists
Artist or Maker
Max Beckmann
Title
Kriegszeit, no. 11 (4 November 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
83.1.1410a-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.