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Karl Opfermann
Kündung 1, no. 1 (January 1921)1921

Not on view
Woodcut print with bold white letterforms on a black ground, reading 'Eine Zeitschrift Kündung für Kunst' with a geometric triangle shape suggesting a face
Woodcut print with bold black background and hand-lettered German text in white. Large block letters spell 'Kundung' at top; eleven lines of verse fill the lower portion. Geometric column and bar motifs frame the composition. Signed 'wNiemeyer' at lower right.
Woodcut print in black and white depicting three stylized, elongated faces in close proximity against a dark background, with bold gouged lines, large angular eyes, and sharp angular features rendered in a German Expressionist style.
Woodcut print in black and white depicting an abstracted human head in three-quarter view, composed of angular, fragmented planes with bold tool marks and strong contrast between carved white lines and black background.
Woodcut print of a seated nude figure rendered in bold black and white, with angular, expressionistic gouged lines against a dominant black background.
Woodcut print in black and white; a standing figure with stylized facial features holds an object at center left, while a bovine head with a large eye appears in the lower foreground; angular radiating lines and a dark circular form fill the upper right background, with bold contrasting gouged marks throughout.
Artist or Maker
Karl Opfermann
Artist or Maker
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Artist or Maker
Gerhard von Ruckteschell
Artist or Maker
Heinrich Stegemann
Artist or Maker
Willi Titze
Title
Kündung 1, no. 1 (January 1921)
Place Made
Germany, Hamburg
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
83.1.1055a-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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.