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Willy Jaeckel
Kriegszeit, no. 56 (1 November 1915)1915

Not on view
Print from the German publication Kriegszeit, issue 56, November 1915, showing a bold ink portrait of a heavyset older man in a military uniform collar with a star medal, signed Peter Behrens
Ink drawing with five loosely sketched animals: a bear viewed from behind, a rooster, a small hanging animal at top, a reclining dog or fox at lower left, and a curled animal at lower right. German text in Fraktur script below.
Lithograph in black and white depicting two nude male figures in a violent struggle among trees, rendered with bold, gestural marks and deep contrasting shadows.
Black and white pen-and-ink caricature of a crowned, uniformed figure sprawled amid a vast field of scattered debris, broken planks, barrels, and labeled crates, with a German-script caption below.

Peter Behrens, Army commander in the east, 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
Willy Jaeckel
Artist or Maker
Carl Olof Petersen
Artist or Maker
August Gaul
Artist or Maker
Peter Behrens
Title
Kriegszeit, no. 56 (1 November 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. (48.74 x 33.02 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
83.1.1453a-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.