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Rudolf Grossmann
Müncher Blätter für Dichtung und Graphik 1, no. 6 (1919) Deluxe editionJune, 1919

Not on view
Print on cream paper, loosely drawn circus scene with two large horses and several human figures amid tent rigging, gestural lines in gray and black
Charcoal or pencil sketch of an elderly bald man with a beard, seated and leaning forward with hands resting on a surface, rendered with loose expressive hatching on a white ground.
Charcoal or lithograph drawing in black and white; a standing robed figure bends toward a small crouching child on a shoreline, with a lightly sketched sailboat and horizon in the background; loose, expressive strokes with a starfish visible on the ground.
Charcoal or crayon drawing with vigorous, gestural strokes suggesting an upward-reaching figure emerging from a dense mass of overlapping dark marks on white paper, with a small signature at lower center.
Lithograph or charcoal drawing depicting a nude human figure gesturing upward toward leafy branches while confronting a large lion in a dense outdoor setting, rendered in loose, expressive linework with strong contrast.

Rudolf Grossmann, Circus, circa 1919, 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
Rudolf Grossmann
Artist or Maker
Alfred Kubin
Artist or Maker
Karl Caspar
Artist or Maker
Walther Teutsch
Artist or Maker
Edwin Scharff
Title
Müncher Blätter für Dichtung und Graphik 1, no. 6 (1919) Deluxe edition
Place Made
Germany, Munich
Date Made
June, 1919
Medium
Printed material and five lithographs on laid 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
83.1.1328a-e
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.

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