Barron S. et al. German expressionist prints and drawings. Vol. 1. Essays. The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art , 1989. — 244 p.Essays by Stephanie Barron, Wolf-Dieter Dube, Alexander Diickers, Peter Guenther, Rose-Carol Washton Long, Paul Raabe, Robert Gore Rifkind, and Ida Katherine Rigby.
Volume 2 — Catalogue of the Collection by Bruce Davis.Los Angeles and Europe, particularly Germany, have had a special relationship for the past fifty years. During the 1930s and 1940s dozens of well-known artists, collectors, writers, musicians, architects, actors, directors, and producers emigrated to Los Angeles from Europe. During the early 1950s, in fact, the codirector of the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art, William R. Valentiner, was a German refugee who had had a long-standing interest in the German Expressionists. Valentiner encouraged members of the Hollywood emigre community to collect and donate to the museum works by the German Expressionists. The connection with Germany was strengthened in 1967, when Los Angeles was named the sole sister city of Berlin. We are delighted to be able to extend this relationship in a center dedicated to connoisseurship and scholarship.