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Hans Meid
Kriegszeit, no. 37 (28 April 1915)1915

Not on view
Lithograph or letterpress print depicting a large, shaggy bear biting a chain bolted to a wooden post, shown from behind, with German blackletter masthead text above
Pen or charcoal sketch titled "Kavallerie-Patrouille," showing mounted and standing soldiers with a horse near a low building, rendered in loose gestural lines; columns of German text in Fraktur script below.
Charcoal or ink sketch of a standing figure in military-style uniform with belted tunic, riding breeches, and tall boots, aiming a rifle, rendered with loose hatching on white paper.
Lithograph with loose, expressive linework depicting a large group of figures in heavy coats and caps marching away from the viewer along a tree-lined road, receding into the distance under a streaked sky. German text caption below reads "Rückkehr ins Gefangenenlager."

August Gaul, The bear in the Carpathian Mountains, 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
Hans Meid
Artist or Maker
August Gaul
Artist or Maker
Wilhelm Wagner
Artist or Maker
Max Liebermann
Title
Kriegszeit, no. 37 (28 April 1915)
Place Made
Germany
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
83.1.1435a-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.