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Otto Dix
Skull1924

Not on view
Etching of a human skull with worm-like tendrils spilling from the eye socket and nasal cavity, with bristling organic growth along the cranium, on cream paper

Otto Dix, Karl Nierendorf, Otto Felsing Druckerei, Skull, 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
Skull
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1924
Medium
Etching on wove copperplate paper
Dimensions
Plate: 10 1/8 × 7 3/4 in. (25.72 × 19.69 cm) Sheet: 18 11/16 × 13 7/8 in. (47.47 × 35.24 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.54a
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.

  • 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

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