Museum Exhibition
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy
National Gallery of Art
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Mueller, Otto
Adam and Eve (Adam und Eva)
1920/1923
lithograph with scraping on wove paper
image: 43.66 × 33.02 cm (17 3/16 × 13 in.) sheet: 56.04 × 43.34 cm (22 1/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
Artist's mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)
1912/1922
bound volume with 51 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper
book: 21.7 × 14.5 × 1.3 cm (8 9/16 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)
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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
Boy with Cat (Knabe mit Katze)
1919
lithograph on yellow wove paper
sheet: 64.1 × 53.5 cm (25 1/4 × 21 1/16 in.)
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Corinth, Lovis
Christ Bearing the Cross (Kreuztragung)
1916
drypoint on Japanese paper
plate: 23.6 × 34 cm (9 5/16 × 13 3/8 in.) sheet: 35.56 × 50.4 cm (14 × 19 13/16 in.) image: 22.86 × 33.02 cm (9 × 13 in.)
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Corinth, Lovis
Dance of Death (Totentanz)
1922
portfolio of five softground etchings (one with drypoint and one with drypoint and hardground) on wove paper
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.)
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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
Dancing Couple (Tanzpaar)
1909
lithograph on yellow wove paper
sheet: 44.6 x 36.8 cm (17 9/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
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