Gerhard Marcks (German, 1889–1981)

Death by the Maenads (Tod durch die Mänaden) from the portfolio Orpheus: 10 Woodcuts on the Verses of Ovid (10 Holzschnitte zu den Versen des Ovid)

Date:

(1947, published in 1948)

Medium:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

composition: 12 x 13 1/8" (30.5 x 33.3 cm); sheet (irreg.): 14 7/8 x 18 1/8" (37.8 x 46 cm)

Paper:

Cream, slightly textured, wove.

Publisher:

Hauswedell & Co., Hamburg

Printer:

Richard von Sichowsky, Landeskunstschule, Hamburg

Edition:

150 [this ex. possibly a proof]; plus 16 hors-commerce on Japan with two extra prints and a sheet with a poem by Rilke

Credit Line:

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Delbanco

Copyright:

© 2016 Gerhard-Marcks-Stiftung, Bremen, Germany

Reference:

Lammek 180-11.

MoMA Number:

36.1961

Themes:

Dance & Leisure, Death

Techniques:

Woodcut