Dance of Death (Totentanz)
1922
Medium
portfolio of five softground etchings (one with drypoint and one with drypoint and hardground) on wove paper
Dimensions
closed: 39 × 29.6 × 1.4 cm (15 3/8 × 11 5/8 × 9/16 in.) page size: 37.5 × 28 cm (14 3/4 × 11 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift in memory of Sigbert H. Marcy and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1990.111.1.1-5
About the Artist
Lovis Corinth · 1858–1925
Lovis Corinth, born Franz Heinrich Louis on July 21, 1858, in Tapiau, East Prussia (now Gvardeysk, Russia), to a tanner father, displayed prodigious drawing talent from childhood. He began formal training at the Königsberg Academy in 1876, then moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1880 to 1884, studying under Ludwig von Löfftz and briefly Franz von Defregger, where he absorbed a Realis...