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Collections

Ernst Barlach
Dance of Death 21924

On view:
BCAM 3rd Floor, Danse Macabre: Death in Print from Dürer to Dix
Lithograph on cream paper depicting three dancing skeleton figures in loose, gestural black marks against a heavily hatched dark background
Lithograph depicting three skeletal figures in dynamic dancing poses around a stone column or pedestal, rendered in bold black charcoal-like strokes with heavy cross-hatching.
Artist or Maker
Ernst Barlach
Germany, also active France, 1870-1938
Publisher
Paul Cassirer Verlag
Germany, Berlin, 1898-1933
Title
Dance of Death 2
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1924
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 10 3/8 x 8 1/8 in. (26.35 x 20.64 cm); Sheet: 15 5/8 x 11 3/8 in. (39.69 x 28.89 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.33.1d
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.

  • Schult, Friedrich. Ernst Barlach, das graphische Werk. Hrsg. mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Akademie der Künste zu Berlin. Series: His Ernest Barlach Werkverzeichnis, Bd. 2. Hamburg: E. Hauswedell, 1958.
  • Esguerra, Clarissa, and Michaela Hansen. Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.