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Otto Hundt
Kriegszeit, no. 23 (20 January 1915)1915

Not on view
Print cover of 'Kriegszeit' No. 23, January 1915, with a boldly drawn head portrait of a heavyset older man with a wide mustache, in black ink on cream paper
Pen and ink sketch titled "Alarm!" depicting a chaotic village street scene with figures, horses, and a cart amid loosely rendered buildings, with German text caption and narrative column below.
Pen or charcoal drawing of a ruined landscape with a black cat curled atop a stone pillar in the foreground; a damaged building and crumbling tower stand at center, with small human figures amid rubble in the middle ground and an open plain stretching to the horizon.
Print with two pen-and-ink cartoon panels and German text captions. Top panel: an angel with halo and outstretched wings carrying a banner with German script, descending toward artillery on a ground line. Bottom panel: a naval scene showing diagonal torpedo tracks crossing horizontal lines representing water, with small vessels and smoke clouds near the horizon.

Erich Büttner, Untitled, circa 1915, 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 Hundt
Artist or Maker
August Gaul
Artist or Maker
Erich Büttner
Artist or Maker
Various German Artists
Artist or Maker
Fritz Rhein
Title
Kriegszeit, no. 23 (20 January 1915)
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1915
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
83.1.1421a-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.