Dance of Death Anno 17 (Totenanz anno 17)
1924
Artist, German, 1891 - 1969
Printer, German, 1854 - 1920
Publisher, German, 1889 - 1947

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, aquatint, and drypoint with burnishing on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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