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From a Modern Dance of Death
War is depicted as a massive giant poised above a mountain of skeletons, ending life with a sledgehammer blow. Barlach’s title looks back to the medieval theme ‘A Dance of Death’ in which living and dead both join a procession or dance, portraying…
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The Artist and Death I
Drypoint print, 1916.
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Death and Woman
Original print, soft ground, etching, 1910. Reproduced in 'Mutter und Kind'.
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Death and Woman
Etching, 1910.
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Death and Woman Wrestling for the Child
Drypoint, 1911.
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Death and the Patient
Lithograph.
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He That Followed - It Was Death!
Engraving, 1848.
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Visions Plate 17: The Suicide Machine
Plate 17 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. The transformation of the Great War into a brutal mechanised slaughter is given a surreal and ironic twist. Civilians terrified by the prospect of war can line up in a tree-lined boulevard, pay a coin into a…
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Thou Shalt Not Kill!
Reconstruction, with original fragments. Johannes Koelz (1895-1971) was born in Muehldorf, Bavaria. He entered the Munich Academy of Art but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War 1. After the death of his brother Hans, killed in…
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The Origins of Leicester's Expressionist Collection
By the late 1930s a progressive art collecting policy had been established at Leicester by Art Assistant Arthur C. Sewter, with contemporary British and continental (including German) art being purchased. In 1936, Sewter’s exhibition of Contemporary…