Joy, fairest spark of the gods

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Joy, fairest spark of the gods

Alternate Title: Freude, schöner Götterfunken
Edition: From the unnumbered popular edition
Plate: plate 1
Germany, 1924
Prints; woodcuts
Woodcut printed from zinc plate on wove paper
Image: 9 7/8 x 14 3/16 in. (25.08 x 36.04 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds (83.1.36a)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Schult, Friedrich. Ernst Barlach, das graphische Werk. Hrsg. mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Akademie der Künste zu Berlin. Series: His Ernest Barlach Werkverzeichnis, Bd. 2. Hamburg: E. Hauswedell, 1958.
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