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Otto Dix
Buried Alive (January 1916, Champagne)1924

Not on view
Etching or drypoint print with two skull-faced figures emerging from a mass of dark, tangled lines in a hilly landscape, numbered 15/70 and signed in pencil below

Otto Dix, Karl Nierendorf, Otto Felsing Druckerei, Buried Alive (January 1916, Champagne), 1924, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Otto Dix
Germany, 1891-1969
Title
Buried Alive (January 1916, Champagne)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1924
Medium
Etching on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (13.97 x 19.69 cm) Sheet: 14 x 18 13/16 in. (35.56 x 47.78 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.51b
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.

  • Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix: das graphische Werk. Hrsg. von Florian Karsch. Eingeleitet von Hans Kinkel. Hannover: Schmidt-Küster, c. 1970
  • McGreevy, Linda F. Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great War. New York: Peter Lang, Inc., 2001.
Copyright
© Otto Dix Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn