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Otto Dix
Dead Man (St. Clément)1924

Not on view
Intaglio print, likely drypoint, showing a heavily distorted human face in close-up, resting on rumpled fabric, rendered in dense black ink with fine, layered hatching; numbered 15/30 in pencil below

Otto Dix, Karl Nierendorf, Otto Felsing Druckerei, Dead Man (St. Clément), 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
Dead Man (St. Clément)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1924
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 11 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (29.85 x 26.04 cm) Sheet: 18 11/16 x 13 7/8 in. (47.47 x 35.24 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.55b
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.

  • Barron, Stephanie et al. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.

  • McGreevy, Linda F. Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great War. New York: Peter Lang, Inc., 2001.

  • Barron, Stephanie et al., German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.

  • 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.
  • 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