Aus einem neuzeitlichen Totentanz (From a Modern Dance of Death), Ernst Barlach

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Ernst Barlach, Aus einem neuzeitlichen Totentanz (From a Modern Dance of Death)
Ernst Barlach, Aus einem neuzeitlichen Totentanz (From a Modern Dance of Death)
Ernst Barlach
Aus einem neuzeitlichen Totentanz (From a Modern Dance of Death)
1916
Ernst Barlach
1870–1938
Aus einem neuzeitlichen Totentanz (From a Modern Dance of Death), 1916
Portfolio/Series title: Der Bildermann, no. 11, September 5, 1916
Where object was made: Germany
Material/technique: lithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 323 x 210 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 12 11/16 x 8 1/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 406 x 339 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 0.9843 x 13 3/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Fund
Accession number: 2008.0016
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Exhibition Label: "Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts," Mar-2010, Steve Goddard Ernst Barlach began the War producing graphics that promoted the German cause. Wildly patriotic and idealistic, he wrote of how he envisioned the creative “berserk fist” of the mighty German army would sweep aside all crass materialism and make the world a nobler place. By 1916, however, his work had reversed in mood and themes. In this print, he depicts a giant figure, perhaps a personification of war itself, straddling a mountain of skeletons and raising a sledgehammer for a crushing blow.