Gesehen am Steilhang von Cléry-sur-Somme (Seen in a Trench near Cléry-sur-Somme), plate 28 from a set of 50, Radierwerk VI "Der Krieg" (War)
Otto Dix, German, 1891 - 1969
1924
Etching, drypoint and aquatint on Kupferdruck paper
23/70
Plate: 10 1/16 × 7 1/2 in. (25.5 × 19.1 cm)
Sheet: 18 3/4 × 14 in. (47.6 × 35.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935. Fund
2013.22
Printer
Otto Felsing, Berlin
Publisher
Karl Nierendorf, Cologne and Berlin
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Numbered, in graphite, lower left: 23/70; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: VIII; signed, in graphite, lower right: DIX
Course History
ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, The Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2013
COLT 73.4, Violence, Ayo Coly, Winter 2015
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Gard, Andrew McCann, Winter 2019
German Club, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 100, The Soul Has Bandaged Moments, Kensington Cochran, Class of 2020, Conroy Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 6-May 16, 2021.
Published References
Otto Dix: das graphische Werk / herausgegeben von Florian Karsch ; eingeleitet von Hans Kinkel. Hannover : Fackelträger Verlag, ca. 1970. Barron, Stephanie, and Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Volumes 1 and 2 of German Expressionist Prints & Drawings, German Expressionist Prints & Drawings, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989.
Provenance
Hill-Stone, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2013.
Catalogue Raisonne
Karsch 97b; Rifkind 484 28
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