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Otto Dix
Surprise Attack1924

Not on view
Etching or drypoint print with dense black crosshatching, two figures emerging from darkness around a diagonal beam, one helmeted and leaning forward, one with arms raised wide

Otto Dix, Karl Nierendorf, Otto Felsing Druckerei, Surprise Attack, 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
Surprise Attack
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1924
Medium
Etching and aquatint on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 7 7/8 x 5 15/16 in. (20 x 15.08 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.82.288.55d
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
  • McGreevy, Linda F. Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great War. New York: Peter Lang, Inc., 2001.
Copyright
© Otto Dix Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn