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72 Items in this Learning Collection
Kronborg Slot
This print depicts a desolate grey and brown seashore with waves hitting the shore from the left side of the sheet. Grey sky with grey and white clouds take up half of the sky. A black and grey castle with towers and spires is in the top right half.
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The Music Lesson (Musikalishe Unterhaltung)
A panel portrait of two men and two women. One man plays a mandolin while the other watches one of the women. The woman he is watching is standing by the table and holding a dog. The second woman is sitting next to the mandolin player and reading.
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Costume for 'Le Train Bleu' by Milhaud: Segler
This costume design shows an athletically built man wearing a red tank top, a brown belt that cinches his waist and wide white pants. He wears a key ring at his waist. 
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Standing Female Nude

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Kronborg
This etching shows a view of the interior court of Kronborg Castle, in the town of Helsingor, Denmark. The viewer looks out from an upper level viewpoint at the roofs and upper stories. The building is drawn with great detail, all the carvings in the stone are pronounced. In the small area of the street seen below is a group of figures. The sky above the buildings and sea is dark grey and cloudy, as is the water. In the far distance another hilly shoreline is visible.
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Woman Standing - Portrait

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Costume for 'Le Train Bleu' by Milhaud: 8. Beau Gosse
This costume design shows an athletic man leaning left wearing a bathing suit with a white tank top with blue stripes. It has high waisted red shorts with a brown stripe at the top and a brown stripe running vertically on the shorts on the figures right side. 
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Set for 'Coppelia' by Delibes, Act II
This gouache shows a stage set for the ballet "Coppelia." The stage set shows a decrepit room with yellow paint or plaster peeling away to reveal brick beneath, a red curtain draped horizontally across the middle ceiling and down at the right side. A dripping heart hangs from the ceiling. There is a light blue niche on the left, a blue window on the right, and a stairway, deep in the center of the image. 
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Chairs, Vienna
Two sets of eight metal chairs are stacked and chained to one another.
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Staircase, Vienna
The view of a lit stairway from a dark interior, seen through a window covered in a grate of nine metal bars forming squares. The stairs have become concave, worn down through use or by the elements.
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Study for a Chapel in Vienna
This study depicts a rectangular chapel with the side walls bent outward at an angle in order to provide a clearer view of the decoration. The chapel design centers upon a sarcophagus placed beneath a painted altarpiece of the Virgin and Child, which are both set within a semicircular architectural projection that extends dynamically from the wall. On the left the pair of angels that support a large oval-shaped painting reach vigorously outward, their wings overlapping the pilasters. On the right appears another sarcophagus surmounted by a pair of putti. Leaning out from the oval niche above the sarcophagus is a female half-figure—probably a portrait of the deceased—making a gesture of devotion toward the altar.
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The Snake Charmer
Geometrically patterned composition with bright saturated colors composed of a central female figure with mermaid’s tail and bright red mane of hair; skull-headed figure at left with guitar; two green monster-like figures in upper right quadrant; two black fish with blue eyes near center.
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Curtain for 'Coppelia' by Delibes
This is a horizontal drawing of curtains for a stage with green swags. Red curtains are at left and right. The center is light blue with clouds floating over both the blue and the red curtain to the right. 
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Nude Woman
Sitting frontal female nude turned 1/2 to right profile, hands on lap. Rough marks for face and head angles. Rough linear shading for background, seat, and floor.
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Soldier Writing a Letter, Görz, Austria
Photograph of a soldier sitting at a desk and writing on a piece of paper.
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Gasthaus: Austria

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Lady with Bread, Stift Griffin, Austria
An old woman wearing a headscarf, sweater, and layered, patterned dress stands against a stone wall. She holds a package wrapped in cloth and a purse.
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Church Caretaker, Passering, Austria
A man in a short-brimmed straw hat and long work coat stands in an arched doorway in front of a dark metal door. His right hand rests in his front pocket, and his left hand holds a large key.
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Female Nude Seated - Rear

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Female Nude Lying Back

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The Bremen Town Musicians (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten), preparatory drawing for print, "Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten," in Alfred Kubin, Abenteuer einer Zeichenfeder (Münich: R. Piper & Co., 1941) #13
To the right, four animals - a donkey, goat, cat, and rooster - appear stacked upon one another in a barely sketched-in window. On the left side, four figures sit at what appears to be a meal in a dinning room, with a soup tureen and various dishes. The image is hastily sketched and few details are absolutely readable, other than basic shapes.
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Crucifixion
A traditional crucifixion scene, with Christ on the cross, and Mary and John at his feet gazing upward. The background is a series of watercolor washes, and parts of the figures, particularly most of the sitting figure of John, is "inked" in over the background washes. A goblet (the cup of Christ) is inked in at the foot of the cross. Signed by the artist, b.r., followed by "VI - 58."
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The Pleading (Die Flehende), from O Eternity—thou thundering word (O Ewigkeit—du Donnerwort), Bach Cantata (Bachkantate) series
In the foreground, illuminated white, a woman, her long hair hanging down her back, kneels and gazes upward, her arms extended in front of her, her hands pointing skyward. The sky is nearly all dark, with a full moon appearing in the center top of the image.
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The Left Thief (Der linke Schächer), preparatory drawing for "Golgotha" illustration in 20 Pictures of the Bible (20 Bilder zur Bibel), 1924
A remake of the traditional Golgotha crucifixion scene. On the right is a horribly distended figure, hanging precariously from a cross that leans out toward the viewer. He represents the left thief, or, the bad thief. He looks out toward the viewer. At the bottom center is a hooded Mary figure, her face shielded from view. At the far left, another cross contains the regular, "sleeping" form of another crucified man, but without the distention of the first. On the ground between the two is the empty cross of Christ, marked by the INRI signed nailed into its top. Along the center of the image, in the background, a file of viewers move from right to left, one of whom carries a ladder. Clouds can be seen in the sky.
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M.L.K. Jr.

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Portrait of Arnold Schönberg
Minimal line drawing presents a 3/4 profile of man, with right ear, a tuft of hair, mouth, nose, full right eye, partial left eye, eyebrows, eye lashes, and minimal chin.
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Nude with Arms Overhead
Nude woman in 3/4 profile from navel up, facing right, with eyes closed and arms resting on head. Right hand visible near left elbow.
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Two Standing Nudes (Zwei Stehende Akte)
Two nude women looking at viewer, standing 1/4 turn to the left. Left-hand figure has right hand behind head, right elbow in air; she also has "paper-colored" hair. The figure on the right has hands on hips, elbows pointing out; left elbow a half-inch from right side of image. Right-hand figure has black hair. Two lines, center and on the right, suggest a ground/floor.
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The Omen (Das Zeichen)
In the top left, a volcano erupts with flame shooting upward. Around the volcano, wrapping from the center of the image to the lower left corner, are dozens of individuals who seem to be fleeing the eruption. The larged figure is a mother, a baby in her arms and her mouth and eyes wide open. The entire drawing consists of lines, including shading, with underlying washes of color.
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Black Magic / Continuation of Mynona's Gray Magic (Schwarze Magie / Fortsetzung von Mynonas grauer Magie)
A heavily inked, multi-layered multi-media image with tinges of color. On the left hand side of image, an older gentleman in turban and beard can be made out. The background is dark inks and washes, bleeding into man's figure. Bottom edge of paper carries inscriptions from Kubin (handwriting matches other samples).
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The Kiss
This work is a photomontage of a couple kissing. The image of the couple has been cut into squares and disjointed, pasted over a scene of a moon and river.
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Fish

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Penelopias Anklage (pl. 27 from 'The Odyssey')

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Three Figures
This relief sculpture shows three abstract human figures comprised of rectangular shapes set on a vertically orientated block. The figures and the background are textured and rough.
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Transport in the Mountains

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Girl with a Straw Hat

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Battersea Power Station

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Untitled

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Der Fang (The Catch), from Rauhnacht

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The Dog Argos Recognizes Ulysses (Plate 29 from The Odyssey)

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Bach Kantate (Bach Cantata): O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort.

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Zwecklos sich dagegen aufzulehnen (It is Useless to Resist It)

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Probably 'Die Ferne Insel' (The Distant Island). Illustrated page, No. 4 of 8, f

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Port of London II

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Portrait of Franz Hauer

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Untitled

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Walter Hasenclever
A black and white drawing of a male figure's head with a barely visible collar and tousled short hair. 
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The Sitting Dog (Windhund)

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Shakespeare's Visions: The Dream (Shakespeares - Visionen: Der Traum)

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Composition

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Tightrope Walker
Image of a nude female with blue stockings and a red, blue, yellow, brown, green, and black necklace. The female is balancing on a green tightrope.
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Roman Suite: Fountain (Plate XIII of XXI)

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Corona

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Composition

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The Action Painter

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Hefa: from the Portfolio: Die Töchter des Bundes (Daughters of the Covenant)

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Standing Female Nude in Black Stockings
Image of a nude female with black stockings and brown hair. Her lower body is facing the viewer and her upper body is facing away with her hands covering her face.
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The Blessed Virgin

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Paestum
Print depicting the city of Paestum in Rome from the inside of a temple. The etching is in color, and the image was probably colored after the printing process was complete. The perspective is from the ground level, as if the viewer was standing inside the structure and looking towards the outside.
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Tower Bridge II (recto), Trees (faint pencil sketch on verso), PL. 7 from 'Londo

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Squatting Woman

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Man Climbing into a Grave, no. 4 out of a series of 12: 'The Fettered Columbus'

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Untitled
Square composition with large gray area and the remaining area has a series of curvilinear, multi-colored stripes. The largest stripes are yellow and straight- one runs from the lower left corner and tapers off in the upper right corner of the square; the other runs from the upper left corner and tapers off in the lower right corner. The other stripes, in shades of orange, red, blue and purple, radiate from the yellow stripes like the spokes of a fan.
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The Spirit of God came upon Saul (Der Geist Gottes kam über Saul),from Saul and

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Roma, The Arch of Titus
Etching depicting the Arch of Titus in Rome (Roma). The etching is colored, possibly after the image had already been printed. The perspective of the image is one from the ground level looking directly through the arch to the buildings on the other side.
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In Search of Times Past
Photomontage of a forest of birch trees with eyes collaged onto the trees; many of them nearly indistinguishable from the bark. Near the right side of the image, another set of eyes with square cut-out edges is visible, seemingly peering through the trees.
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Christus am Ölberg (Christ in Gethsemane)

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Infant Nude

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Untitled (Figure)

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Male Figure

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Monaco, Monte-Carlo

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Poster for the Salon des Cents
Colors: olive, beige, pink/red, gold. Paper size: lh 64 1/5cm & rh 64cm x tw 43 1/2cm & bw 43 2/5cm. Image size approximately: h 56 1/5cm x w 41 2/5cm.
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The Bremen Town Musicians (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten), preparatory drawing for print, "Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten," in Alfred Kubin, Abenteuer einer Zeichenfeder (Münich: R. Piper & Co., 1941) #13

Accession Number
2007/2.118

Title
The Bremen Town Musicians (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten), preparatory drawing for print, "Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten," in Alfred Kubin, Abenteuer einer Zeichenfeder (Münich: R. Piper & Co., 1941) #13

Artist(s)
Alfred Kubin

Artist Nationality
Austrian

Object Creation Date
1940

Medium & Support
graphite on wove paper

Dimensions
15 5/8 in. x 12 1/2 in. ( 39.69 cm x 31.75 cm )

Credit Line
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection

Label copy
Oskar Kokoschka
Austria, 1886–1980
The Pleading (Die Flehende)
1914
Lithograph
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection, 2007/2.121
Alfred Kubin
Austria, 1887–1959
The Bremen Town Musicians (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten)
1940
Graphite on paper
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection, 2007/2.118
Lovis Corinth
Germany, 1858–1925
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott)
1920
Ink on paper
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection, 2007/2.108
Prints and printing processes held a special position in the practices of Expressionist artists. On a practical level, prints were an easy way disseminate images and obtain income. For artists like Otto Dix and George Grosz, whose work had significant social and political dimensions, printmaking became a way to reach the masses. Yet prints were also a way to both tap into medieval German artistic traditions and reinvigorate traditional practices in the midst of increasing mechanization. Many Expressionists turned to German sources for their print subjects; these three works are based on a Bach cantata in the Kokoschka, a German folktale in the Kubin, and an illustrated history of Martin Luther in the Corinth.

Subject matter
Illustrates the moment in the folktale The Bremen Town Musicians, when the four animals - the donkey, sheep, cat, and rooster - appear in the window of a home and frighten the invading robbers so much that the robbers desert their gold.

Physical Description
To the right, four animals - a donkey, goat, cat, and rooster - appear stacked upon one another in a barely sketched-in window. On the left side, four figures sit at what appears to be a meal in a dinning room, with a soup tureen and various dishes. The image is hastily sketched and few details are absolutely readable, other than basic shapes.

Primary Object Classification
Drawing

Primary Object Type
preparatory drawing

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

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Keywords
Animals
dining rooms
interiors
literary theory

1 Related Resource
Food Cultures
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