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Collections

Otto Hettner
Kriegszeit, no. 31 (17 March 1915)1915

Not on view
Lithograph portrait of a sculpted bust labeled 'KANT' on a pedestal, with a German-language typeset masthead reading 'Kriegszeit Künstlerflugblätter,' dated 17 März 1915
Lithograph with loose, expressive charcoal-like strokes depicting four figures under a canopy; a shirtless seated man receives attention to his leg from two figures at right, while a fourth stands behind, with German caption text below.
Charcoal or lithograph drawing of three muscular figures closely intertwined, rendered with vigorous cross-hatching and expressive gestural lines in shades of grey.
Black and white lithograph of a destroyed bridge with twisted metal framework dominating the center, rubble and debris in the foreground, small figures visible at right, church spires in the distant background, rendered with expressive dark tonal contrasts; German text caption below.

Max Liebermann, Kant, 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

Maker
Otto Hettner
Maker
Max Liebermann
Maker
M. Mory
Maker
Franz Heckendorf
Maker
Various German Artists
Title
Kriegszeit, no. 31 (17 March 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
83.1.1429a-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.