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Otto Dix
Corpse in Barbed Wire (Flanders)1924

Not on view
Vertical etching or aquatint print depicting a decomposed human corpse in a military cap, with hollow skull, exposed teeth, skeletal hand, and bare branches in the background, rendered in deep black and stark white

Otto Dix, Karl Nierendorf, Otto Felsing Druckerei, Corpse in Barbed Wire (Flanders), 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
Publisher
Karl Nierendorf
Germany, also active United States, 1889-1947
Printer
Otto Felsing Druckerei
Germany, Berlin, 1854-1920
Title
Corpse in Barbed Wire (Flanders)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1924
Medium
Etching and aquatint on wove copperplate paper
Dimensions
Plate: 11 13/16 x 9 9/16 in. (30 x 24.29 cm) Sheet: 18 13/16 x 13 7/8 in. (47.78 x 35.24 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.52f
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.
  • 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
Copyright
© Otto Dix Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn