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Lovis Corinth

Death and the Artist (Tod und Künstler) from Dance of Death (Totentanz), 1921, published 1922

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series Title

Totentanz (Dance of Death)

Medium

softground and hardground etching with drypoint from a portfolio of five softground etchings on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.9 x 17.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 in.)

sheet: 30 x 23.7 cm (11 13/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift in memory of Sigbert H. Marcy and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Müller 1960, no. 546

Accession Number

1990.111.1.1

Artists / Makers

Lovis Corinth (artist) German, 1858 - 1925

Alfred Ruckenbrod (printer)

Euphorion Verlag (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in plate: Tod & Kunstler; lower left in graphite: 17/25; lower right in graphite: Lovis Corinth

Marks and Labels

None.

Provenance

Sigbert Marzynski (Marcy); Dr. Toni G. Marcy, Los Angeles, California; acquired 1990 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Marcy, Toni G., Dr.

Exhibition History

1993: Lovis Corinth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1993-1994, no. 59a.

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.