German Expressionism
German Expressionism
Begun in 1946 and augmented in 1980 by establishment of the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, this collection includes a rich selection of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and illustrated books. The Rifkind Center holds seven thousand works on paper and a library of more than four thousand volumes, including superior impressions of woodcuts and lithographs by Kirchner, Heckel, Emil Nolde, and Kandinsky, as well as rare periodicals and portfolios by Otto Dix, Käthe Kollwitz, and Max Pechstein.
Erich Heckel
New Acquisitions
Every autumn I go to Print Fair in New York, an amazing display of prints and drawings brought for sale by roughly 100 print dealers from around the world. It’s like being a kid in a candy store where you are allowed to open frames, use a magnifying glass, and sometimes even touch artworks to scrutinize every detail if you’re really serious about buying...
Avatars of the Gods
Exhibition curator Timothy Benson brings us some other striking interpretations of the Niebelunlied, including illustrations by Carl Otto Czeschka and the woodcuts of Franz Grohs, never before exhibited at LACMA. In a charming little book (LACMA’s copy once belonged to Kaiser Wilhelm II), Czeschka shows a young girl, Kriemhild, dreaming that her brothers, the eagles, will kill her lover, the falcon. Kriemhild is a major player in the original saga (whom Wagner would re-cast as Gutrune, just a nice girl looking for a husband)...
