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Collections

Wilhelm Morgner
The rat-trap merchantcirca 1912

Not on view
Woodcut print in stark black and white depicting a fantastical figure with an animal head, zigzag rays, circular orbs, and tangled serpentine forms filling a vertical composition

Wilhelm Morgner, The rat-trap merchant, circa 1912, 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
Wilhelm Morgner
Title
The rat-trap merchant
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1912
Medium
Woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 13 13/16 x 9 9/16 in. (35.08 x 24.28 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
83.1.1391.3
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.