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Karl Opfermann
Kündung 1, no. 2 (February 1921)1921

Not on view
Woodcut print with bold black letterforms on a pinkish-tan ground, reading 'Eine Zeitschrift / Kündung / für Kunst' in German, with a triangular geometric form at center
Woodcut print with bold black background and white hand-carved lettering. Large title text in German at top, followed by lines of verse in irregular, expressive script, with a signature block at lower right.
Woodcut print in black and white, a stylized standing figure with angular face at center, flanked by abstracted forms and a six-pointed star at upper right, with a line of Hebrew script along the bottom edge.
Woodcut print in black and white depicting two stylized figures with angular, Expressionist features; one smaller figure at left sits against a dotted background, a larger figure dominates the right foreground. Bold carved lines and high contrast throughout.
Charcoal or ink drawing of a stylized figure with an elongated oval head, asymmetrical facial features, holding a smaller abstracted figure at waist level; bold hatching and expressive line work in black on white.
Charcoal drawing of three stylized figures with geometric, mask-like faces; two seated figures at left and center, a third at right holding a palette, rendered with bold angular lines and heavy shading.

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Title: Kündung: A magazine for Art, 1920, 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
Karl Opfermann
Artist or Maker
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Artist or Maker
Lasar Segall
Title
Kündung 1, no. 2 (February 1921)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921
Medium
Printed material and 6 woodcuts on wove paper
Dimensions
Overall: 16 9/16 x 12 5/8 in. (42.00 x 32.00 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
83.1.1056a-f
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.