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August Gaul

German, 1869–1921

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Exhibitions

  • Pablo Picasso. *The Weeping Woman, I (La Femme qui pleure, I)*, State III. July 1, 1937. Drypoint, aquatint, etching, and scraper; plate: 27 1/8 × 19 1/2″ (68.9 × 49.5 cm); sheet: 30 5/16 × 22 5/16″ (77 × 56.7 cm). Publisher: the artist, Paris. Printer: Lacourière, Paris. Edition: 15. Acquired through the generosity of the Katsko Suzuki Memorial Fund, the Riva Castleman Endowment Fund, David Rockefeller, The Philip and Lynn Straus Foundation Fund, and Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro; Linda and Bill Goldstein, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Schimmel, the Edward John Noble Foundation, and the Associates of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books; The Cowles Charitable Trust, Nelson Blitz, Jr. with Catherine Woodard and Perri and Allison Blitz, Mary Ellen Meehan, and Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro; and Ruth and Louis Aledort, Carol and Bert Freidus, David S. Orentreich, M.D., and Susan and Peter Ralston. © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    About Face: Selections from the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books

    May 21–June 5, 2001

    The Museum of Modern Art

  • Four German Printmakers: Max Klinger, Lovis Corinth, Christian Rohlfs, and Otto Dix

    April 4–July 23, 1991

    The Museum of Modern Art

  • Figurative Inventions

    March 22–July 17, 1990

    The Museum of Modern Art

21 works online

Various Artists, Walther Klemm, Ernst Barlach, Erich Heckel, Max Liebermann, August Gaul, Willy Jaeckel, Josef Bato, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Heinrich Zille, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Mueller, Max Slevogt, Ottomar Starke, Wilhelm Wagner, Leopold von Kalckreuth, Rudolf Grossmann
Der Bildermann, vol. 1, nos. 1-18
April 1916-December 1916

August Gaul
Europe (Europa) (front cover, folio 2) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr 1916)
1916

August Gaul
Early Spring (Vorfrühling) (front cover, folio 4) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 2 (Apr 1916)
1916

August Gaul
Die neue Sommerzeit (The New Summertime) (plate, folio 7) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 3 (May 1916)
1916

August Gaul
Kut el Amara (front cover, folio 8) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 4 (May 1916)
1916

August Gaul
The Raven (Die Raben) (plate, folio 10 verso) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 5 (Jun 1916)
1916

August Gaul
Horn's Ledge (Horns Riff) (front cover, folio 12) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 6 (Jun 1916)
1916

August Gaul
A Ray of Hope on Meatless Days (Ein Lichtblick an fleischlosen Tagen) (front cover, folio 14) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 7 (Jul 1916)
1916

August Gaul
The Meadow (Die Wiese) (plate, folio 16 verso) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 8 (Jul 1916)
1916

August Gaul
To My Friend B. Berneis (Meinem Freunde B. Berneis) (front cover, folio 22) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 11 (Sep 1916)
1916

August Gaul
The Hamster (Der Hamster) (front cover, folio 22) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 12 (Sep 1916)
1916

August Gaul
The Monkeys (Die Affen) (plate, folio 28 verso) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 14 (Oct 1916)
1916

August Gaul
Mountain Goats (Bergziegen) (border, folio 31 verso) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 15 (Nov 1916)
1916

August Gaul
The Eagle (Der Adler) (front cover, folio 32) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 16 (Nov 1916)
1916

August Gaul
Christmas (Weihnacht) (plate, folio 36 verso) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 18 (Dec 1916)
1916

August Gaul
Untitled, illustration to Simon Dach's poem "Song of Friendship" (Lied der Freundschaft) (border, 1st song, folio 39) from the periodical Der Bildermann, supplement to vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr 1916)
1916

August Gaul
Untitled (Gathering of Animals) [Tierversammlung], illustration to Robert Walser's "Der Handelsmann" (headpiece, folio 49) from the periodical Der Bildermann, supplement to vol. 1, no. 6 (Jun 1916)
1916

August Gaul
Untitled, illustration to Stefan Zweig's "The Legend of the Third Dove" (headpiece, folio 56) from the periodical Der Bildermann, supplement to vol. 1, no. 17 (Dec 1916)
1916

August Gaul
Tailpiece (folio 56 verso) from the periodical Der Bildermann, supplement to vol. 1, no. 17 (Dec 1916)
1916

Various Artists, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, Karl Caspar, Conrad Felixmüller, Erich Heckel, René Beeh, Heinrich Campendonk, Lovis Corinth, August Gaul, Ernst Barlach, George Grosz, Max Unold, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Max Liebermann, Ludwig Meidner, Otto Mueller, Max Pechstein, Adolf Ferdinand Schinnerer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Richard Seewald, Rudolf Grossmann, Lyonel Feininger
Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
1920

August Gaul
Goats (Ziegen) (plate 5) from the illustrated book Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
1920 (print executed c. 1916)

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