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Otto Dix
Cats (Katzen)1920, printed 1922

Not on view
Woodcut print in black ink on cream paper, depicting cats on urban rooftops with expressive white-line marks, windows, and symbols; pencil inscriptions below

Otto Dix, Heinar Schilling, Cats (Katzen), 1920, printed 1922, 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
Heinar Schilling
German, 1894-1955
Title
Cats (Katzen)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1920, printed 1922
Medium
Woodcut on thin maschine-Bütten
Dimensions
Image: 9 7/16 x 6 7/8 in. (23.97 x 17.46 cm); Sheet: 16 5/8 x 13 13/16 in. (42.23 x 35.08 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.56f
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., German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992, vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).
  • 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