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Collections

Otto Hettner
Kriegszeit, no. 47 (8 July 1915)1915

Not on view
Print cover of 'Kriegszeit' periodical, No. 47, July 1915, with bold expressionistic ink illustration of three hunched military figures over a paper-strewn table
Black and white print depicting a military airfield scene with tents, an early biplane on the ground, and aircraft with cross markings flying overhead; figures stand in the foreground; German text below in two columns.
Lithograph depicting a rural landscape with a farmhouse and trees at left, two biplanes flying overhead in a cloudy sky, with German text below the image.
Ink drawing with two rectangular friezes of bears in motion, one above and one below a handwritten German text passage signed 'Lessing,' with loose, energetic linework throughout.

Otto Hettner, War council in the tent of the czar, 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 Hettner
Artist or Maker
Franz Heckendorf
Artist or Maker
August Gaul
Title
Kriegszeit, no. 47 (8 July 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
83.1.1445a-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.