Technisches Personal (Technicians)

1922

Otto Dix

Associated Names
Otto Dix

Artist, German, 1891 - 1969

The image shows an illustrated depiction of two individuals from the chest up. The person on the left has a broad nose, full lips, and closed eyes, displaying a mustache and beard stubble. They wear a beret and have tattoos on the neck and chest. The person on the right has a long nose, short textured hair under a beanie, facial stubble, and tattoos on the chest. Both figures wear clothing with open collars. The background consists of abstract linear forms.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on wove cream paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.8 × 19.6 cm (11 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 49.2 × 41.5 cm (19 3/8 × 16 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.197

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Karsch 1970, no. 39, State ii/ii

  • Series Title

    Zirkus (Circus) (Plate 8)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February 28, 2008; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1970

  • Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix, das graphische Werke.Hannover, 1970: no. 39, ii/ii

Inscriptions

signed, numbered and titled below image, in graphite: 48/50 Technisches Personal DIX

Wikidata ID

Q76556330

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