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Ernst Barlach (German, 1870-1938)

Barlach / Barlach 2 / Barlach 3 / Barlach 4 / Barlach 5

"Käthe Kollwitz and German Expressionism" features over forty works by Käthe Kollwitz plus additional works by Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Heinrich Campendonck, Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmuller, Hans Fronius, Georg Grosz, Erich Heckel, Hannah Hoch, Karl Hofer, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Ludwig Meidner, Edvard Munch, Gabrielle Munter, Heinrich Nauen, Emile Nolde, Max Pechstein, Hilla von Rebay, Georges Rouault, Rudolf Schlichter, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Siegfried Schott, Georg Tappert, Wilhelm Wagner, and others.
Gruppe in sturm / Group in a storm. Original woodcut. 1920. Edition: 600 impressions for Kurt Pfister's Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwort ) Leipzig, 1920). Image size: 178x129mm. Price: $675.
Der hohe Herr / The Master (Schult 189, Davis-Rifkind 100:17). Original woodcut, 1922. From Der Findling / The Foundling (1922). 80 impressions. Ours is from the separate suite of 20 on Japon, each of which is signed lower right. The series was made to illustrate Barlach's play. Image size: 164x129mm Price: $1600.
Das Eulennest / The owl's nest (Schult 211, Davis-Rifkind 101:8). Original woodcut for Walpurgisnacht, 1923. 120 signed proofs plus an unsigned edition from which our impression comes published by Paul Cassirer (Berlin, 1923). The woodcut illustrates a witch traveling to a Halloween feast on a table. From Barlach's adaptation of Goethe's Walpurgisnacht scene in Faust, Part I. Image size: 134x111mm. Price: $875.
Der Bischof / The Bishop (Schult 212, Davis-Rifkind 101: 9). Original woodcut for Walpurgisnacht, 1923. 120 signed proofs plus an unsigned edition printed from zinc plates from which our impression comes published by Paul Cassirer (Berlin, 1923). The woodcut illustrates a bishop traveling to a Halloween feast. From Barlach's adaptation of Goethe's Walpurgisnacht scene in Faust, Part I. Image size: 140x142mm. Price: $575.
Verliebte Reverenz / Amorous reverence (Schult 223, Davis-Rifkind 101:20). Original woodcut for Walpurgisnacht, 1923. 120 signed proofs plus an unsigned edition from which our impression comes published by Paul Cassirer (Berlin, 1923). The woodcut shows Satan greeting a young witch at a Halloween feast in Barlach's adaptation of Goethe's Walpurgisnacht scene from Faust, Part I. Image size: 78x91mm. Price: $875.
Fort mikt dem Wort vom Menschenfrass / Away with the word of cannibalism. (Schult 192, Davis-Rifkind 100:20). Original woodcut, 1922. From Der Findling / The Foundling (1922). 80 impressions. Ours is from the separate suite of 20 on Japon, each of which is signed lower right. The series was made to illustrate Barlach's play. Image size: 145x138mm Price: $1600.

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