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August Gaul
Kriegszeit, no. 59 (mid-December 1915)1915

Not on view
Print on cream paper combining blackletter typeset masthead with a loose, scribbly ink illustration of a kneeling figure with open mouth, arms wrapped around their body
Two pen-and-ink sketches of military cemeteries in Poland, with handwritten German captions. Top: a fenced grave enclosure with a large cross and rows of individual markers receding into the distance. Bottom: an open rural landscape with a tall roadside cross, scattered grave markers, a farmhouse, and bare trees; a standing figure at left.
Print with three pen-and-ink landscape sketches stacked vertically, each depicting open fields with grave mounds and crosses amid sparse trees; handwritten German captions below each scene, with an attribution line at bottom.
Lithograph depicting three soldiers in dynamic poses along a steep diagonal slope, one falling backward with arm raised, one crouching with open mouth, and one collapsed on the ground; loose, expressive linework with cross-hatched shading. Caption reads "Avanti! Avanti!"

Otto Hettner, The conquered, 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
August Gaul
Artist or Maker
Jozef Arpad Murmann
Artist or Maker
Otto Hettner
Title
Kriegszeit, no. 59 (mid-December 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
83.1.1456a-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.