The disdainers of death

© Otto Dix Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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The disdainers of death

Alternate Title: Die Verächter des Todes
Edition: 9/50
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Zirkus
Portfolio (translation): Circus
Plate: plate 1

Germany, 1922
Prints; etchings
Etching with drypoint on copperplate paper
Plate: 13 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (33.97 x 27.62 cm); Sheet: 19 5/8 x 16 15/16 in. (49.85 x 43.02 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.50a)
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

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  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992,  vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).
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