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Otto Dix, Otto Felsing, and others

Sappers Have to Keep Up Firing at Night

1924

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Sappers Have to Keep Up Firing at Night

1924

Physical Qualities Etching and aquatint with roulette, Sheet: 355 x 476 mm. (14 x 18 3/4 in.) Plate: 246 x 299 mm. (9 11/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate 8 from the portfolio "The War (Der Krieg)"
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1950.2
Oliver Shell, BMA, "German Expressionism: A Revolutionary Spirit," 29 January - 14 September 2014.

Joan Settle Robinson and Wesley L. Wilson, BMA traveling exhibition, "Images of War," 1980, circulated to Caroline County Public Library, Denton; Essex Community College; Hagerstown Junior College; The Museum in the Mall, Columbia; Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson; St. John's College, Annapolis; Washington College, Chestertown; Western Maryland College, Westminster; Worcester County Library, Snow Hill.

Susan Dackerman, BMA, "A Modern Renaissance: German Expressionist Prints and Drawings," 10 July - 29 September, 1996.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "48/70 II"; lower center in graphite: "VIII"; lower right in graphite: "Dix"

Markings: WM: BSB

Artist

Otto Dix

German, 1891-1969

German, 1891-1969
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Printer

Otto Felsing

German, 1854 - 1920s

German, 1854 - 1920s
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Publisher

Karl Nierendorf

German, 1889-1947

German, 1889-1947
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