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Max Liebermann
War on earth1914

Not on view
Lithograph with loose charcoal-like drawing of three helmeted soldiers with bayoneted rifles advancing across a dark landscape beneath a glowing moon, with handwritten German text filling the right half

Max Liebermann, War on earth, 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
Max Liebermann
Title
War on earth
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1914
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 15 1/2 x 11 in. (39.37 x 27.94 cm) irreg.; 15 9/16 x 11 1/16 in. (39.40 x 28.00 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
83.1.1417d
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.

  • Schiefler, Gustav. Max Liebermann : sein graphisches Werk. Berlin : B. Cassirer, 1923.
  • 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.