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Michel Fingesten
Marsyas, 5 (Summer 1918) (Deluxe edition)1918

Not on view
Etching or drypoint print, close-cropped face with wide, spiraling eyes and a butterfly rendered in thick black lines overlaid on the nose and brow
Ink drawing of a large crouching figure looming over a ruined cityscape, rendered with energetic hatching and diagonal strokes. The word "CHRONIK" is lettered across the composition in bold brushwork, with a handwritten signature in the upper right.

Walter Gramatté, The rebel 1, 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
Michel Fingesten
Artist or Maker
Max Pechstein
Artist or Maker
Walter Gramatté
Title
Marsyas, 5 (Summer 1918) (Deluxe edition)
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
1918
Medium
Printed material with twenty-four drypoints and three lithographs on Japan and wove 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
83.1.1665a-aa
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.