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Erich Godal
Dance of Death1920

On view:
BCAM 3rd Floor, Danse Macabre: Death in Print from Dürer to Dix
Lithograph on cream paper, five contorted figures swirling around a central pole with gestural black marks and smudged gray tones

Erich Godal, Genossenschaft für proletarische Kunst, Dance of Death, 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Erich Godal
Germany, also active United States, 1899-1969
Publisher
Genossenschaft für proletarische Kunst
Germany, Berlin, 1920
Title
Dance of Death
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1920
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 20 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (53.02 × 42.86 cm) Sheet: 27 × 19 5/8 in. (68.58 × 49.85 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
AC1992.238.25.13
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
Selected Exhibition History
  • Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023
Copyright
© Erich Godal [or artist's estate]

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