W16 Thurman - HISTORY 396 / AAS 395 / GERMAN 396 - Germany and the Black Diaspora

German Expressionism and primitivism

Heinrich Campendonk
Portrait of Jean Bloe Niestlé
woodcut with watercolor, gouache and gold on paper
13 11/16 in x 11 9/16 in (34.77 cm x 29.37 cm);22 ⅛ in x 28 ⅛ in (56.2 cm x 71.44 cm)
Museum Purchase
This is a line drawing of a woman's head inscribed within a vertical rectangle. Simple horizontal and vertical lines depict the eyes, nose, and mouth while a few curved lines above each eye depict a hair line, and a large "U" forms the chin. 
Alexei Jawlensky
Kopf
lithograph on paper
7 1/16 in x 4 15/16 in (17.9 cm x 12.5 cm);11 9/16 in x 9 in (29.4 cm x 22.8 cm);19 in x 14 in (48.3 cm x 35.6 cm)
Museum Purchase
This woodcut print of an abstracted landscape is done in green, red, yellow, blue, and black. An architectural form appears on the left and an archer on horseback appears in the lower right corner.  
Wassily Kandinsky
The Archer
woodblock on paper
6 1/2 in x 6 in (16.5 cm x 15.2 cm);12 3/16 in x 9 1/2 in (30.9 cm x 24.1 cm);19 5/16 in x 14 5/16 in (49 cm x 36.3 cm)
Museum purchase
Käthe Kollwitz
'Bauernkrieg' (Peasant War Cycle). Losbruch (Outbreak)
aquatint and etching on paper
22 1/16 in x 28 11/16 in (56.04 cm x 72.87 cm);27 15/16 in x 32 ⅛ in (70.96 cm x 81.6 cm)
Museum Purchase
Christian Rohlfs
Dancers (Zwei Tänzende)
linoleum cut on paper
11 ⅛ in x 11 4/5 in (28.26 cm x 30 cm);18 ⅛ in x 22 ⅛ in (46.04 cm x 56.2 cm);14 7/16 in x 14 4/5 in (36.67 cm x 37.62 cm)
Museum Purchase
László Moholy-Nagy
Militarism (Militarismus)
gelatin silver print from rephotographed photomontage on paper
7 1/16 in x 5 1/8 in (17.94 cm x 13.02 cm);19 5/16 in x 14 5/16 in (49.05 cm x 36.35 cm);7 1/16 in x 5 1/8 in (17.94 cm x 13.02 cm);6 3/4 in x 4 13/16 in (17.15 cm x 12.22 cm)
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
Ernst Kirchner
Bathing Girls
graphite on paper
15.9 x 19 1/2 in. (40.5 x 49.5 cm);22 1/8 x 28 1/8 in. (56.04 x 71.28 cm);15.9 x 19 1/2 in. (40.5 x 49.5 cm)
Gift of Herbert Barrows
Ernst Kirchner
Two Women
Color crayons on thin smooth cream wove paper
8 9/16 in. x 6 1/2 in. ( 21.7 cm x 16.5 cm )
Gift of Herbert Barrows
Portrait head with landscape in background.
Ernst Kirchner
Portrait of David Müller
woodcut on paper
18 in x 14 in (45.72 cm x 35.56 cm);13 ⅜ in x 11 ⅝ in (33.97 cm x 29.53 cm);22 ⅛ in x 18 ⅛ in (56.2 cm x 46.04 cm);18 15/16 in x 14 15/16 in (48.1 cm x 37.94 cm)
Museum Purchase
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Portrait
lithograph on paper
17 1/2 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 44.4 cm x 34.9 cm )
Museum Purchase
A monumentally stylized head of a woman. Her head is tilted slighty to the viewer's right. Her eyes, nose, and lips are large and almost mask-like. She appears to be wearing a hat of a modern style. Shading is executed with powerful parallel lines and cross-hatching. The year of the work's execution, 1916, appears in the lower right.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Head of a Woman (Frauenkopf)
wood cut on paper
12 in x 9 in (30.48 cm x 22.86 cm);10 ⅛ in x 7 ⅛ in (25.72 cm x 18.1 cm);19 ⅜ in x 14 ⅜ in (49.21 cm x 36.51 cm);12 11/16 in x 9 ⅝ in (32.23 cm x 24.45 cm)
Museum Purchase
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Men with Boat (Fishermen with Boat); Ausfahrende Fischer
lithograph on cream wove paper
17 3/10 in x 23 ½ in (43.97 cm x 59.69 cm);16 ⅝ in x 23 ½ in (42.23 cm x 59.69 cm);26 ⅛ in x 32 ⅛ in (66.36 cm x 81.6 cm)
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet

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