The following catalogue lists the German Expressionist prints exhibited in "Walking a Tightrope." Click on the artist's name for a gallery of thumbnails. Click on the titles to view the individual print. To access the college's art collection, please visit: cat.lib.grin.edu:82/screens/opacmenu.html .
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Otto Dix
Selbstporträt im Profil (Self-Portrait in Profile), 1922
Lithograph, 21.1 x 15.0 (36.2 x 28.0)
Edition of about 100, unnumbered
Pencil signed
Ref. Karsch, Otto Dix 50
Otto Dix
Liegender Akt (Sitzende mit Zigarette) (Reclining Nude [Seated Woman with Cigarette]), 1923
Lithograph, 56.0 x 43.5 (65.0 x 50.2)
Edition of 36 (21/36)
Pencil signed
Ref. Karsch, Otto Dix 54
Fig. 16
Lyonel Feininger
Kleinstadt (Small Town), 1918
Woodcut, 10.1 x 11.1 (14.8 x 15.5)
Proof (few copies), no regular edition
Pencil signed
Ref. Prasse W 45
Lyonel Feininger
Rathaus von Zottelstedt, 2 (Town Hall, Zottelstedt, 2), 1918
Woodcut, 22.6 x 27.6 (30.8 x 40.8)
Die Schaffenden 2.1 (1920) edition of 125
Pencil signed
Ref. Prasse W 51
Lyonel Feininger
Villa am Strande, 4 (Villa on the Shore, 4), 1920
Woodcut, 26.6 x 34.2 (32.2 x 38.6)
Bauhaus Drucke: Neue europaeische Graphik Erste Mappe Meister des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar (1921) edition of 130
Pencil signed
Ref. Prasse W 226
Conrad Felixmüller
Arbeiterpaar (Ehepaar Schnabel) (Worker Couple [Mr. and Mrs. Schnabel]), 1920
Etching, 28.5 x 27.5 (49.5 x 35.1)
Edition of 30 (25/30) before Die Schaffenden 3.3 (1921) edition of 125
Pencil signed
Ref. Söhn 220 a
Fig. 20
- Ganymed: Jahrbuch für die Kunst (Ganymed Art Yearbook) 4 (1922)
6 original prints bound in book
Patron edition of 300 (without separate folio of prints)
Max Beckman, Tanzende (Dancing), p.128
Woodcut
Heinrich Campendonk, The Beggar, after Bruegel, p. 144
Woodcut
Ref. (Beckmann) Hofmaier 228 B b
Otto Gleichmann
Untitled, 1921
Plate 5 from Chimären (Monsters)
Lithograph, 24.5 x 24.4 (37.8 x 30.0)
Edition of 100
Pencil signed
Ref. Lang 84
George Grosz
Kein Hahn kräht nach ihnen (Nobody Gives a Damn), 1920
Transfer lithograph, 27.9 x 22.2 (41.0 x 31.4)
Die Schaffenden 2.4 (1920) edition of more than 125
Pencil signed
Ref. Dückers E-63
Fig. 18
George Grosz
Entkleidung (Disrobing), 1921
Plate 9 from Ecce Homo
Photolithograph, 28.5 x 18.7 (35.8 x 26.6)
Edition “A,” 50 copies
Pencil signed
Ref. Dückers S1, 9
Fig. 17
Erich Heckel
Junges Mädchen (Young Girl), 1913
Also titled Mädchenkopf (Head of a Young Girl)
Woodcut, 25.8 x 17.2 (34.1 x 25.0)
Genius 2.1 (1920) edition (size unknown)
Unsigned
Ref. Dube and Dube-Heynig H 264 III
Erich Heckel
Beim Vorlesen (Reading Aloud), 1914
Woodcut, 30.1 x 20.0 (38.0 x 26.0)
Verlag der Dichtung (1922) edition of 125, on wove paper (100 on wove paper; 25 on Japan)
Pencil signed
Ref. Dube and Dube-Heynig H 272 II B
Fig. 24
Erich Heckel
Gerader Kanal (Straight Canal), 1915
Woodcut, 37.4 x 27.1 (59.0 x 39.0)
Proof, 2nd state of 3 (few copies), before regular edition (size unknown)
Pencil signed
Ref. Dube and Dube-Heynig H 287 II
Fig. 1
Erich Heckel
Bildnis Dr. M (Portrait of Dr. M), 1915
Drypoint, 28.4 x 23.1 (46.0 x 35.0)
Separate pull aside from edition of 40
Pencil signed
Ref. Dube and Dube-Heynig KN 132 A
Erich Heckel
Ein Wärter (A Male Nurse), 1916
Woodcut, 36.5 x 27.1 (50.0 x 40.2)
Edition size unknown
Pencil signed
Ref. Dube and Dube-Heynig H 304 II
Fig. 23
Erich Heckel
In der Muschelstube II (In the Shellfish Room II), 1916
Also titled Gent (Ghent)
Lithograph, 27.4 x 20.4 (35.2 x 27.7)
Der Bildermann 1.4 (May 1916) edition (size unknown)
Signed in plate
Ref. Dube and Dube-Heynig L 229 I B
Erich Heckel
In der Tram (In the Tram Car), 1916
Also titled Die Fahrt (The Trip)
Lithograph, 25.6 x 21.1 (35.0 x 27.0)
Der Bildermann 1.3 (May 1916) edition (size unknown)
Initialed EH in plate
Ref. Dube and Dube-Heynig L 241 III B
Fig. 21
Erich Heckel
Mann in der Ebene (Man in the Plain), 1917
From Elf Holzchnitte, 1912-1919 (1921)
Woodcut, 38.0 x 27.2 (61.0 x 51.0)
Edition of 40
Pencil signed
Ref. Dube and Dube-Heynig H 305 II B
Oskar Kokoschka
Selbstbildnis (Brustbild mit Zeichenstift) (Self-Portrait [Half-Length with Drawing Crayon]), 1914
Frontispiece from O Ewigkeit Du Donnerwort (“Bachkantate”) (O Eternity Thou Word of Thunder [“Bach Cantata”])
Lithograph, 45.5 x 30.5 (63.8 x 44.0)
Edition of 100 (“Standard” edition, 1917)
Pencil signed
Ref. Wingler and Welz 58
Fig. 5
Oskar Kokoschka
Ivar von Lücken (Portrait of Ivar von Lücken), 1918
Lithograph, 65.8 x 46.2 (78.9 x 54.0)
Proof before regular edition of 75, on Japan
Pencil signed
Ref. Wingler and Welz 119
Käthe Kollwitz
Beim Dengeln (Whetting the Scythe), 1905
Plate 3 from Bauernkreig (Peasant War)
Etching, 29.8 x 29.8 (59.8 x 43.8)
First edition (before 1921 edition), size unknown
Pencil signed
Ref. Klipstein 90 IX
Fig. 3
Käthe Kollwitz
Tod mit Frau im Schoss (Death with Woman on Lap), 1921
Woodcut, 23.8 x 28.8 (32.8 x 46.5)
Graphisches Jahrbuch 3 (1921) edition of 150 (135/150)
Pencil signed
Ref. Klipstein 151 VI b
Käthe Kollwitz
Die Freiwilligen (The Volunteers), 1922
Plate 2 from Der Krieg (War)
Woodcut, 35.0 x 49.0 (47.5 x 65.2)
Edition of 100 (edition “A”) (56/100)
Pencil signed
Ref. Klipstein 178 IV b
Fig. 9
Käthe Kollwitz
Selbstbildnis im Profil (Self-Portrait in Profile), 1927
Lithograph, 32.0 x 29.0 (54.0 x 38.0)
Edition “B” on Japan (edition size unknown)
Pencil signed
Ref. Klipstein 227 b
Fig. 6
Franz Marc
Aus der Tierlegende (From the Animal Legends), 1912
Woodcut, 19.7 x 24.0 (25.7 x 35.3)
Genius 1.2 (1919) edition (size unknown)
Initialed M in block
Ref. Lankheit 831.3
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