Table Of ContentThe 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
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ConradFelixmuller
Germany, 1897-1977
SelhstbildnismitFrau, 1921
(Self-portraitwithwife)
Colorwoodcut
15%X i^y4in. (40.0X40.0cm)
M.82.288.61
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Bibliography;p.
Includesindexes.
Vol. 2:Catalogueofthe
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1. Germanexpressionism
(Art)—Catalogs. 2. Art-
California—LosAngeles-
Catalogs. 3. RobertGore
RifkindCenterforGerman
ExpressionistStudies-
Catalogs. I. Barron,
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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
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Woodcutwithwatercolor Rose-Carol Washton Long
15%X iiy^in. (40,0X29.6cm)
FromportfolioDasVaterunser
83.1.22e 208 Index
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