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Otto Baumberger
Descent from the crosscirca 1918

Not on view
Lithograph depicting several figures supporting a limp, possibly unclothed central figure beneath a cross with an 'INRI' sign, rendered in expressive black and white tones

Otto Baumberger, Descent from the cross, circa 1918, 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 Baumberger
Title
Descent from the cross
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1918
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 8 x 5 11/16 in. (20.32 x 14.45 cm); Sheet: 11 5/16 x 8 11/16 in. (28.7 x 22 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
83.1.1117a
Classification
Prints
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.
Copyright
© 2015 Estate of Otto Baumberger / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / PROLITTERIS, Switzerland