Dance of Death (Totentanz)
1922
Artwork overview
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Medium
portfolio of five softground etchings (one with drypoint and one with drypoint and hardground) on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
closed: 39 × 29.6 × 1.4 cm (15 3/8 × 11 5/8 × 9/16 in.)
page size: 37.5 × 28 cm (14 3/4 × 11 in.) -
Accession
1990.111.1.1-5
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Catalogue Raisonné
Müller 1960, no. 546-551
Associated Artworks
See all 5 artworks
Death and the Old Man (Tod und Greis) from Dance of Death (Totentanz)
Lovis Corinth, Alfred Ruckenbrod, Euphorion Verlag
1921
Death and the Young Man (Tod und Jüngling) from Dance of Death (Totentanz)
Lovis Corinth, Alfred Ruckenbrod, Euphorion Verlag
1921
Death and the Artist (Tod und Künstler) from Dance of Death (Totentanz)
Lovis Corinth, Alfred Ruckenbrod, Euphorion Verlag
1921
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sigbert Marzynski (Marcy); Dr. Toni G. Marcy, Los Angeles, California; acquired 1990 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, pp. 312-313.
2024
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.
Bibliography
1960
Müller, Heinrich. Die späte Graphik von Lovis Corinth. Hamburg, Germany: Lichtwarkstiftung, 1960, no. 546-551