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Rudolf Grossmann
Prospectus for Marsysas (May 1917)1917

Not on view
Horizontal lunette-shaped print in dense black ink, central reclining figure with arms raised above head, flanked by shadowy figures emerging from dark cross-hatched ground
Drypoint or etching with energetic, gestural line work; two figures embrace at lower left beside a tall tree with dense foliage, a iron railing running across the lower foreground.
Drypoint or etching of a narrow urban street viewed from above, with tall building facades flanking a deep central passage; a lone dark figure stands at the base of a bare tree, with angular lines and dense cross-hatching creating sharp contrasts of light and shadow.
Drypoint print of a nude figure seated and turned away, rendered in loose expressive lines with hatched shading; a handwritten signature appears below the plate mark.
Artist or Maker
Rudolf Grossmann
Artist or Maker
Elfriede Thum
Artist or Maker
Hans Meid
Title
Prospectus for Marsysas (May 1917)
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1917
Medium
Printed material and four drypoints on Japan paper
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
83.1.1660a-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.

  • 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.