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Dance of Death II (Totentanz II)
192212 7/8 x 18 in. (32.7 x 45.7 cm)
Ernst Barlach
Germany (Wedel, Germany, 1870 - 1938, Rostock, Germany)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Woodcut
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1970.26
Location: Not currently on view
Ernst Barlach was an Expressionist sculptor, printmaker, and playwright who worked in a wide range of media. Like many other German artists of the period, he initially believed that war could serve as a catalyst that would disrupt the artifice and spiritual complacency of contemporary German society. His time in the military exposed him to the horrors of war, an experience that frequently emerges in the dark intensity of his later work.
In the early 1920s, Barlach began to experiment with the medium of woodcut, looking back to the late medieval period for both style and subject matter.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
Plate 4 of 7 from the portfolio The Transformations of God: Seven Woodcuts (Die Wandlungen Gottes: Sieben Holzschnitte)
In the early 1920s, Barlach began to experiment with the medium of woodcut, looking back to the late medieval period for both style and subject matter.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
Plate 4 of 7 from the portfolio The Transformations of God: Seven Woodcuts (Die Wandlungen Gottes: Sieben Holzschnitte)
Provenance
Sold anonymously ["various owners"] at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, February 18-19, 1970, lot 10; purchased at that sale by the Gallery
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Man, The Incomplete God 11/19/1977 - 2/12/1978
- Art from the Woodblock 9/4/1981 - 11/1/1981
- German Expressionism: Art in the Age of Turbulence 8/3/2007 - 10/28/2007
- It Came from the Vault: Rarely Seen Works from MAG's Collection 3/17/2013 - 6/9/2013
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
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It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue
Entry for this artwork in the It Came from the Vault exhibition catalogue. The exhibition ran from March 17-June 9, 2013