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Otto Dix
The Outposts in the Trenches Must Maintain the Bombardment at Night1924

Not on view
Gestural print in black ink depicting standing armed figures aiming rifles at a mass of collapsing figures, with fallen bodies along the lower edge and a pale moon at upper right
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
The Outposts in the Trenches Must Maintain the Bombardment at Night
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1924
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 9 3/4 x 11 13/16 in. (24.77 x 30 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 x 18 11/16 in. (35.24 x 47.47 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.55h
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