Otto Dix
Shock Troops Advance under Gas1924

Not on view

Intaglio print of four soldiers in gas masks and steel helmets advancing through a debris-strewn battlefield, rendered in deep blacks and grays with stark white goggle lenses

Artist or Maker: Otto Dix
Germany, 1891-1969
Publisher: Karl Nierendorf
Germany, also active United States, 1889-1947
Artist or Maker: Otto Felsing Druckerei
Germany, Berlin, 1854-1920
Title: Shock Troops Advance under Gas
Place Made: Germany
Date Made: 1924
Medium: Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions: Plate: 7 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (19.69 × 29.21 cm) Sheet: 18 3/4 × 13 7/8 in. (47.63 × 35.24 cm)
Credit Line: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number: M.82.288.52b
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.
Rigby, Ida Katherine. An alle Künstler! : War-Revolution-Weimar : German Expressionist Prints, Drawings, Posters and Periodicals from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. San Diego : San Diego State University Press, 1983.
Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
McGreevy, Linda F. Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great War. New York: Peter Lang, Inc., 2001.
Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix: das graphische Werk. Hrsg. von Florian Karsch. Eingeleitet von Hans Kinkel. Hannover: Schmidt-Küster, c. 1970
Barron, Stephanie et al. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
Barron, Stephanie, and Sabine Eckmann. New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.
Copyright: © Otto Dix Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Otto Dix
Shock Troops Advance under Gas1924

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Otto Dix
Germany, 1891-1969
Publisher: Karl Nierendorf
Germany, also active United States, 1889-1947
Artist or Maker: Otto Felsing Druckerei
Germany, Berlin, 1854-1920
Title: Shock Troops Advance under Gas
Place Made: Germany
Date Made: 1924
Medium: Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions: Plate: 7 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (19.69 × 29.21 cm) Sheet: 18 3/4 × 13 7/8 in. (47.63 × 35.24 cm)
Credit Line: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number: M.82.288.52b
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.
Rigby, Ida Katherine. An alle Künstler! : War-Revolution-Weimar : German Expressionist Prints, Drawings, Posters and Periodicals from the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. San Diego : San Diego State University Press, 1983.
Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
McGreevy, Linda F. Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great War. New York: Peter Lang, Inc., 2001.
Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix: das graphische Werk. Hrsg. von Florian Karsch. Eingeleitet von Hans Kinkel. Hannover: Schmidt-Küster, c. 1970
Barron, Stephanie et al. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
Barron, Stephanie, and Sabine Eckmann. New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.