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Otto Dix
Skin Graft1924

Not on view
Etching with aquatint, close-up portrait of a man with severe facial scarring on one side, wearing a striped garment, against a gray background with a curved metal rail

Otto Dix, Karl Nierendorf, Otto Felsing Druckerei, Skin Graft, 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
Skin Graft
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1924
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 7 13/16 × 5 7/8 in. (19.84 × 14.92 cm) Sheet: 18 1/2 × 13 7/8 in. (46.99 × 35.24 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.54j
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.

  • Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix: das graphische Werk. Hrsg. von Florian Karsch. Eingeleitet von Hans Kinkel. Hannover: Schmidt-Küster, c. 1970
  • Barron, Stephanie et al., German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.

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


  • Josenhans, Frauke V. Artists in Exile: Expressions of Loss and Hope. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2017.
  • Benson, Timothy O. Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2023.
Copyright
© Otto Dix Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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