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Dora Brandenburg-Polster
Self-destructioncirca 1915

Not on view
Black and white print with gestural strokes, a tall classical column topped by a small figure rising above a dense crowd, with large buildings and billowing cloud forms behind

Dora Brandenburg-Polster, Self-destruction, circa 1915, 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
Dora Brandenburg-Polster
Germany, Magdeburg, 1884-1958
Title
Self-destruction
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1915
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (17.14 x 10.79 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
83.1.1206c
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.