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Otto Hettner
Kriegszeit, no. 20 (30 December 1914)1914

Not on view
Lithographic magazine cover with blackletter German text above a sketchy drawing of an eagle perched on a wooden post above choppy water, dated 30 December 1914
Lithograph landscape of a snow-covered urban outskirts, with low barracks-like buildings in the foreground, bare leafless trees lining a road, small figures and horse-drawn vehicles, and a city skyline with a church spire in the distance; German script text at lower right reads "Vorstadt im Schnee."
Lithograph with expressive crosshatched charcoal-like linework. A large shrouded figure cradles a smaller figure while striding through a field of crosses. A winged angel holding scales hovers in the upper right corner amid dark clouds. German text below reads "Erst Sieg, dann Frieden!"
Charcoal or lithograph drawing of a muscular standing figure wielding a sword above a group of fallen and struggling figures below, rendered with vigorous, expressive mark-making. German script caption and signature visible at bottom.

August Gaul, View to the west, 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
Rudolf Grossmann
Artist or Maker
Ernst Barlach
Artist or Maker
August Gaul
Title
Kriegszeit, no. 20 (30 December 1914)
Place Made
Germany
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
83.1.1418a-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.