Wandering Death
Ernst Barlach
1923
Medium
lithograph on Japanese paper
Dimensions
sheet: 34.5 × 41 cm (13 9/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.157
About the Artist
Ernst Barlach · 1870–1938
Ernst Barlach (1870–1938) was one of the most powerful German Expressionist sculptors of the early twentieth century, an artist whose work fused medieval spirituality with modern existential anguish to produce images of haunting emotional force. Born in Wedel, Holstein, Barlach studied at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts and later at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts before traveling to Paris, wh...