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The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionis ESSAYS German Expressionist Prints and Drawings Volume1 Essays by Stephanie Barron,Wolf-Dieter Dube, Alexander Diickers,Peter Guenther,Rose-Carol Washton Long, Paul Raabe,Robert Gore Rifkind, and Ida Katherine Rigby Volume 2 Catalogue ofthe Collection by Bruce Davis The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum ofArt contains the world's most comprehensive and distinguished collection of German Expressionist prints and drawings,illustrated books, and periodicals.This two-volume publication docu- ments forthe firsttimethe Study Center'simmenseholdings. The richly illustrated essays in volume i place the collection in the context ofthe history and development ofthe German Expressionist movement, survey research in the field, and includeRobertGoreRifkind'sinterviewwithOskarKokoschka. Volume 2, the largest and most inclusive ever pubhshed on German Expressionist graphic art,illustrates and precisely catalogues each of the more than five thousand works in the collection.The volume's six indexes permit access to this outstanding material by book,periodical, and portfolio titles; authors and publishers ofillustrated works; and the subjects ofportraits. German Expressionist and Drawings Prints German Expressionist and Drawings Prints The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies volume 1 Essays by Stephanie Barron Wolf-Dieter Dube Alexander Diickers Peter Guenther Rose-Carol Washton Long Paul Raabe Robert Gore Rifkind Ida Katherine Rigby Los Angeles County Museum of Art Prestel Copyright©igSg byMuseumAssociates, LosAngelesCounty MuseumofArt. Allrightsreserved Cover ConradFelixmuller Germany, 1897-1977 SelhstbildnismitFrau, 1921 (Self-portraitwithwife) Colorwoodcut 15%X i^y4in. (40.0X40.0cm) M.82.288.61 Davis614 PublishedbytheLosAngeles CountyMuseumofArt, 5905WilshireBoulevard, LosAngeles, California90036, andPrestel-Verlag, Mandlstrasse26, D-8000Munich40, FederalRepublicofGermany Distributedincontinental EuropeandJapanbyPrestel- Verlag, Verlegerdienst MunchenGmbH&CoKG, Gutenbergstrasse 1, D-8031 Gilching, Federal RepublicofGermany Distributedinthe United StatesandCanadabyteNeues PublishingCompany, 15East 76Street. NewYork, NY 10021 DistributedintheUnitedKing- dom, Ireland, andallother countriesbyThames&Hudson Limited,,30-34Bloomsbury Street, LondonVVCiB3QP, England LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-PublicationData RobertGoreRifkindCenterfor German ExpressionistStudies. Germanexpressionistprints anddrawings. Bibliography;p. Includesindexes. Vol. 2:Catalogueofthe collection/BruceDavis. 1. Germanexpressionism (Art)—Catalogs. 2. Art- California—LosAngeles- Catalogs. 3. RobertGore RifkindCenterforGerman ExpressionistStudies- Catalogs. I. Barron, Stephanie. II. Davis, Bruce, 1951- III. Title. PrintedintheFederalRepublic ofGermany ISBN3-7913-0974-9(™l- i) ISBN3-7913-0959-5Ms- 1, 2) Contents vii Foreword Earl A. Powell ni xi Preface Robert Gore Rifkind XV A Salute Wolf-Dieter Dube 1 An Introduction to the Expressionist Movement Peter Guenther 39 The Revival of Printmaking in Germany Ida Katherine Rigby IncaptionsforworksfromtheRifkindStudyCenter, creditlineshave generallybeenomitted. Forworkswithmuseumnumbersbeginning 67 Portfolios wMiutsheMu.m82o.f2A8r7t,aRnodbMer.t82G,o2r8e8,RitfhkeicnrdedCietntlienrefiosrLGoesrAmnagnelEexsprCeosusniotnyist Alexander Diickers Studies;forworkswithmuseumnumbersbeginningwith83.1, the creditlineisLosAngelesCountyMuseumofArt, RobertGoreRifkind CenterforGerman ExpressionistStudies;purchasedwithfundspro- 115 Illustrated Books and Periodicals videdbyAnnaBingArnold, MuseumAcquisition Fund, and Paul Raabe Deaccession Funds. TheDavisnumbersgiveninthecaptionsrefertoBruceDavis,German ExpressionistPrintsandDrawings:TheRobertGoreRifkindCenter forGermanExpressionistStudies,volume2, CatalogueoftheCollec- 131 The Embrace of Expressionism: tion, publishedsimultaneouslywiththisvolume. The Vagaries of Its Reception in America ThecollectionofthelibraryoftheRifkindStudyCenteriscatalogued Stephanie Barron inSusanTrauger, TheCatalogueoftheLibraryoftheRobertGore RifkindCenterforGermanExpressionistStudies(Boston: G. K. Hall, I9S9). 151 Wild Passion at Midnight: Reflections on Thirty-fiveYears of Collecting Art Robert Gore Rifkind Jupipi 163 A Conversation with Kokoschka at Ninety-two tiiOn(()niu!Mf)nfi Robert Gore Rifkind 173 The Library: Resource for the Study of German Expressionism Paul Raabe MaxPechstein Germany, 1881-1955 UnsertdglichBrot/giebuns 183 Scholarship: Past, Present, and Future heute, 1921 Directions {Giveusthisdayourdailybread) Woodcutwithwatercolor Rose-Carol Washton Long 15%X iiy^in. (40,0X29.6cm) FromportfolioDasVaterunser 83.1.22e 208 Index Davis2258.5
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