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Willi Geiger
Gilles de Rais1919

Not on view
Lithograph portrait of a man from the chest up, wearing a dark flat-brimmed hat and cloak, hands pressed together at his chest, with soft granular tonal shading
Black and white lithograph depicting an armored figure on horseback raising a lance or spear overhead, with a second rearing horse at left, rendered in loose, expressive mark-making with strong tonal contrast.
Black and white ink illustration with stippled and crosshatched technique; a standing figure in the foreground faces a distant doorway where a second figure is silhouetted, with a dramatic beam of white light cutting through the dark interior space.
Black and white ink illustration with heavy cross-hatching; a group of human figures recoils on the left beneath large bat-like wings spanning the upper composition, while a tall skeletal figure holding a staff or broom stands at right in a cone of light against a dark background.
Ink drawing, rear view of a shirtless standing figure holding a small child aloft with one arm, a second figure lying on the ground below, rendered with loose expressive linework and heavy crosshatching.
Black and white print with expressive ink work; a large fish dominates the center, surrounded by a dark, turbulent sky above and a crowd of small human figures below, with sketchy architectural forms in the background.
Ink and charcoal drawing of a highly stylized, elongated seated figure with exaggerated features, hunched over a heap of abstracted objects, rendered in loose, expressive linework with dense shading; monogram signature at lower right.
Black ink illustration of a nude figure prone on the ground amid rubble, arms raised upward, one hand holding a rosary with a small cross, rendered with energetic cross-hatched linework.
Ink drawing of multiple nude figures intertwined against a densely hatched background, rendered with energetic, gestural line work in black on white.
Lithograph in black and white depicting a nude figure reclining horizontally across a landscape, with dark heavily textured hills or clouds in the background and bold contrasting shadows below, rendered with loose, grainy mark-making.
Black and white print or ink drawing of a pale, stylized male figure emerging from dense dark cross-hatching, arms crossed and holding a broom, with a simplified mask-like face; small monogram signature at lower left.
Lithograph with bold black and white contrast; a spindly, elongated figure crouches at lower center with one arm raised upward toward a bright open space, surrounded by dense dark masses and faint sketched birds in the distance, executed with loose gestural marks.
Charcoal or lithograph drawing of a standing figure in partial drapery, head bowed forward, hands clasped at the waist, flanked by two dark gestural masses against a white ground, with expressive hatched linework.
Black and white lithograph depicting a bearded elderly figure wearing a bishop's mitre, leaning over a recumbent figure, rendered with loose, expressive mark-making against a dark foliage background.
Black ink drawing with loose, expressive marks; two abstracted figures leaning over a tall cylindrical vessel from which liquid streams upward, surrounded by dense hatched shadows; monogram signature at lower left.
Black and white print depicting two nude figures amid explosive radiating lines and dense crosshatched shadows, rendered with vigorous, gestural linework.
Artist or Maker
Willi Geiger
Title
Gilles de Rais
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919
Medium
Printed material and sixteen lithographs on laid paper
Dimensions
Overall: 12 x 10 4/16 in. (30.48 x 26.03 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
83.1.811a-p
Classification
Books
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.