Gesehen am Steilhang von Cléry-sur-Somme (Seen in a Trench near Cléry-sur-Somme)
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
Portfolio / Series Title
Plate 28 of a set of 50 from Radierwerk VI "Der Krieg" (War)
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
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Winter 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann2, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Spring 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
Virtual Space for Dialogue Gallery Talk: The Soul Has Bandaged Moments, Spring 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2022
GERM 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2022
GERM 7.07, Babylon Berlin, Veronika Fuechtner, Spring 2022
GERM 3.01, Introdoctory German (cont.), Heidi Denzel, Fall 2022
Comparative Literature 49.09/English 53.49, Graphic Medicine, Michael Chaney, Winter 2023
Humanities 2.01, The Modern Labyrinth, Lucas Hollister, Petra McGillen, Andrea Tarnowski, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2023
German 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2024
Art History 48.02, Histories of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2024
German 3.02, Introductory German (cont.), Heidi Denzel, Spring 2024
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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