F19 Perlove - HISTART 394/HISTORY 328 - The Nazis and Art: Promoting, Demeaning, Plundering

Erich Heckel
Der Narr (The Fool)
woodblock on paper
14 ⅛ in x 10 11/16 in (35.88 cm x 27.15 cm);15 4/5 in x 20 1/16 in (40.16 cm x 50.96 cm);18 ½ in x 22 ⅛ in (46.99 cm x 56.2 cm)
Museum Purchase
In this print, we see a male and female acrobat with brown shirts and dark pants. The floor is red and the background is blue. 
Erich Heckel
Akrobaten
woodblock print on paper
19 1/4 in x 13 7/16 in (48.89 cm x 34.13 cm);22 1/8 in x 28 1/8 in (56.2 cm x 71.44 cm);12 1/16 in x 15 7/8 in (30.64 cm x 40.32 cm);19 3/8 in x 13 9/16 in (49.21 cm x 34.45 cm)
Gift of Mathias Goeritz
Erich Heckel
Before the Mirror
lithograph on paper
19 1/2 in x 15 3/16 in (49.5 cm x 38.6 cm);22 in x 28 in (55.88 cm x 71.12 cm);19 1/2 in x 15 3/16 in (49.53 cm x 38.58 cm);24 7/16 in x 17 7/8 in (62 cm x 45.4 cm)
Museum Purchase
Max Pechstein
Dialogue
color woodcut on paper
15 ⅞ in x 12 ⅝ in (40.32 cm x 32.07 cm);15 ⅞ in x 12 ⅝ in (40.32 cm x 32.07 cm);28 in x 264 in (71.12 cm x 670.56 cm);20 in x 21 ⅛ in (50.8 cm x 53.66 cm)
Museum Purchase
Max Pechstein
Sailor
woodcut on paper
27 1/2 x 22 7/8 in. (69.8 x 58.1 cm);32 1/8 x 26 1/8 in. (81.5 x 66.2 cm);28 x 21 15/16 in. (71 x 55.7 cm);19 1/2 x 15 7/8 in. (49.53 x 40.17 cm)
Museum Purchase
A human face in anguish, with hands raised to his cheeks, looks out from the center of a visual field full of slashing diagonals and explosive triangles of color. On the left side, smoke billows.
Otto Dix
Artillery Battle (Artillerieschlacht)
charcoal and gouache on paper mounted on linen
22 3/10 in x 22 ⅛ in x 1 ½ in (56.67 cm x 56.2 cm x 3.81 cm);22 3/10 in x 22 ⅛ in x 1 ½ in (56.67 cm x 56.2 cm x 3.81 cm);16 in x 15 ⅝ in (40.64 cm x 39.69 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
Ernst Kirchner
Seated Peasant (Sitzende Bäuerin)
etching on paper
7 ¼ in x 6 ¾ in (18.41 cm x 17.15 cm);19 3/10 in x 14 ⅜ in (49.05 cm x 36.51 cm);10 ⅝ in x 10 ⅜ in (26.99 cm x 26.35 cm)
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet
Ernst Kirchner
Seated Woman (Gerda Schilling)
graphite on off-white satinized paper
21 x 15 1/4 in. (53.3 x 38.7 cm);28 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. (71.28 x 56.04 cm);21 x 15 1/4 in. (53.3 x 38.7 cm)
Museum Purchase
Four male figures face each other, one in a hat on the left and three on the right facing him. The figure in the center has one hand raised to his chest. The two men on the right are looking at the man in the center.
Emil Nolde
Schriftgelehrte
aquatint and drypoint on paper
17 1/2 in x 19 5/16 in (44.4 cm x 49 cm);22 1/8 in x 28 1/8 in (56.2 cm x 71.44 cm)
Museum Purchase
Emil Nolde
Frisian Landscape
watercolor on Asian paper
13 1/2 in. x 18 1/2 in. ( 34.3 cm x 47 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

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