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Georg Schrimpf, Girl with Bird (Mädchen mit Vogel), 1917, Woodcut (black) on Japanpaper (thin tissue-like wove paper). Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago. Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection, 1991.352. Public domain.
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The Tradition and Influence of the German Woodcut

October 5 – December 5, 1993

This exhibition, as a complement to The German Print Portfolio, focused on the history of the woodcut and its development in early and modern German art and history.

Centered around a 1991 gift, the W L. Schreiber Woodcuts from Books of the Fifteenth Century, the exhibition included early twentieth-century woodcuts by such artists as Conrad Felixmiiller, Christian Rohlfs, and Georg Schrimpf from the Smart Museum of Art and local private collections.

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