Symbole der Zeit IX (Trommler) (Symbols of the Time IX (Drummer)), Max Slevogt

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Max Slevogt, Symbole der Zeit IX (Trommler) (Symbols of the Time IX (Drummer))
Max Slevogt, Symbole der Zeit IX (Trommler) (Symbols of the Time IX (Drummer))
Max Slevogt
Symbole der Zeit IX (Trommler) (Symbols of the Time IX (Drummer))
1916
Symbole der Zeit IX (Trommler) (Symbols of the Time IX (Drummer)), 1916
Where object was made: Germany
Material/technique: lithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 278 x 350 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 10 15/16 x 13 3/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 278 x 350 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 15/16 x 25 9/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Fund
Accession number: 2008.0019
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts," Mar-2010, Steve Goddard After the outbreak of war, Slevogt volunteered for military service as a war artist. He returned to Berlin after only a few weeks. In 1914 he wrote of his experience as "an overriding memory of a world that seemed violated by blind destruction was all that remained of that participation, for which I had so fervently longed.” In 1916 he began publishing his series Symbols of Our Time in Der Bildermann. This specific image, originally untitled but later called Paroxysm of Destruction, shows grotesque human figures using their own severed limbs as tools of war.