Dance of Death Anno 17 (Totenanz anno 17)

1924

Otto Dix

Artist, German, 1891 - 1969

Otto Felsing

Printer, German, 1854 - 1920

Karl Nierendorf

Publisher, German, 1889 - 1947

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and drypoint with burnishing on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.9 x 29.5 cm (9 7/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 35 x 47.4 cm (13 3/4 x 18 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.98.273

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Karsch 1970, no. 88


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 2, 1971; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • German Expressionist Prints from the Collection of Ruth and Jacob Kainen, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1985: no. 81.

2002

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, as Dance of Death Anno 17 from the series War.

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1970

  • Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix; das graphische Werke.Hannover: Fackeltrager-Verlag Schmidt-Kuster, 1970.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 26/70; lower center in graphite: XX; lower right in graphite: OD


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