Skull

© Otto Dix Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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Skull

Alternate Title: Schädel
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Der Krieg
Portfolio (translation): War

Germany, 1924
Prints; intaglio
Etching on wove copperplate paper
Plate: 10 1/8 × 7 3/4 in. (25.72 × 19.69 cm) Sheet: 18 11/16 × 13 7/8 in. (47.47 × 35.24 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.54a)
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Bibliography

  • Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix: das graphische Werk. Hrsg. von Florian Karsch. Eingeleitet von Hans Kinkel. Hannover: Schmidt-Küster, c. 1970
  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer.  The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation.  Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
  • Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix: das graphische Werk. Hrsg. von Florian Karsch. Eingeleitet von Hans Kinkel. Hannover: Schmidt-Küster, c. 1970
  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer.  The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation.  Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.

  • 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.

    View Volume 1 of this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

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  • Barron, Stephanie et al. Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.

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

  • 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.


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