Kriegsgespenst

1945

Erich Müller-Kraus

Associated Names
Erich Müller-Kraus

Artist, German, 1911 - 1967

The image displays sharp, angular black shapes on a red and white dotted background. The abstract artwork features jagged forms intertwining across the canvas. The textured, dotted background adds depth to the scene. The arrangement of lines and shapes creates a sense of movement.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut printed in red and black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21 × 33 cm (8 1/4 × 13 in.)
    sheet: 29.7 × 42.1 cm (11 11/16 × 16 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.401

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schmetz 1980, no. 45, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Glöckner, Cologne); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased January 10, 1995; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1980

  • Schmetz, Bernhard. Erich Mueller-Kraus 1911-1967: Arbeiten seit 1929. Aachen: 1990, no. 45, only

Inscriptions

signed and dated in graphite, below image, at right: Müeller-Kraus 44; titled in graphite, below image, at left: aus: namen (?) spiele u. figurinen: Kriegsgespenst; on verso, in graphite, by later hand: 709

Wikidata ID

Q76556832

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