Flood (Sintflut)

c. 1918

Christian Rohlfs

Associated Names
Christian Rohlfs

Artist, German, 1849 - 1938

The image features swirling lines and shapes creating an abstract composition in black and reddish-brown colors. The arrangement resembles figures intertwined, with lines extending outward suggesting motion and texture.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut with brown watercolor on gray-green wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 68.7 × 51.4 cm (27 1/16 × 20 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.453

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Vogt 1960, no. 108, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrick Neuerberg [b. 1883], Cologne (Lugt 1344a). (Christie's New York, November 1, 1988, lot 159); (via Hom Gallery, Washington, D.C.); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1960

  • Vogt, Paul. Christian Rohlfs: Das graphische Werk. Recklinghausen, 1960: no. 108, only

Inscriptions

at lower right, in graphite: CR

Wikidata ID

Q76556949

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