THE COLLECTION
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