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Peter August Böckstiegel
Lifecirca 1918

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Woodcut print with bold black and white lines, close-up angular portrait of a man facing forward, with a second figure and hanging lamp in the background

Peter August Böckstiegel, Life, 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
Peter August Böckstiegel
Germany, Arrode-Werther, 1889-1951
Title
Life
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1918
Medium
Woodcut on thin purple wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 11 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (28.58 x 24.77 cm); Sheet: 19 x 12 11/16 in. (48.26 x 32.23 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
83.1.1372g
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.

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