Museum Exhibition

Catalogue of Works

The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy

National Gallery of Art

46 documented works

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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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Corinth, Lovis

Death and the Artist (Tod und Künstler)

1920-1921

softground etching and drypoint on green wove paper (proof)

plate: 23.8 × 17.9 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 34.2 × 25 cm (13 7/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

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Corinth, Lovis

Death and the Artist (Tod und Künstler) from Dance of Death (Totentanz)

1921, published 1922

softground and hardground etching with drypoint from a portfolio of five softground etchings on wove paper

plate: 23.9 x 17.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 in.) sheet: 30 x 23.7 cm (11 13/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

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Rohlfs, Christian

Death as Juggler (Revolution) (Tod als Jongleur [Revolution])

1918/1919

woodcut, printed in blue-black, with opaque watercolor on wove paper

sheet: 36.8 × 49.6 cm (14 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.)

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Corinth, Lovis

Death Visits the Strucks (Death and the Couple) (Tod bei Strucks [Tod und Paar]) from Dance of Death (Totentanz)

1921, published 1922

softground etching with drypoint from a portfolio of five softground etchings on wove paper

plate: 24.13 × 17.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 in.) sheet: 29.85 × 23.81 cm (11 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)

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Gramatté, Walter

Der Mantel (The Coat)

1919

bound volume with 12 lithographs and one relief print on laid JW Zanders paper

book: 25.8 × 20.4 × 1 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/16 × 3/8 in.)

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Gramatté, Walter

Der Morgenweg zum Amt (The Morning Route to the Agency) (plate 1) from Der Mantel (The Coat)

1919

lithograph from a bound volume with 12 lithographs and one relief print on laid JW Zanders paper

book: 25.8 × 20.4 × 1 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/16 × 3/8 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Dr. Ludwig Binswanger (Kopf Dr. Ludwig Binswanger)

1917/1918

Woodcut on wove paper

sheet: 59 x 41 cm (23 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Fanny Wocke

1916

woodcut on blotting paper

image: 30.5 x 40 cm (12 x 15 3/4 in.) sheet: 42.2 x 56.8 cm (16 5/8 x 22 3/8 in.)

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Mueller, Otto

Finding of Moses (Auffindung des Moses)

c. 1920

lithograph in black and yellow on wove paper

image: 27.94 × 38.74 cm (11 × 15 1/4 in.) sheet: 43.97 × 53.34 cm (17 5/16 × 21 in.)

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Rohlfs, Christian

Flood (Sintflut)

c. 1918

woodcut with brown watercolor on gray-green wove paper

sheet: 68.7 × 51.4 cm (27 1/16 × 20 1/4 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: The Shadow of Life)

1924

bound volume with 50 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 23.8 × 16.5 × 1.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Head Study (Kopfstudie)

1924

lithograph on wove paper

image: 32.9 x 27.3 cm (12 15/16 x 10 3/4 in.) sheet: 40.8 x 33.5 cm (16 1/16 x 13 3/16 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Kirchner - Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)

1925

bound volume, covered in yellow linen, with 17 woodcuts on coated paper (including title page and front and back covers) and three photomechanical relief prints (of drawings)

book: 27 × 21 × 2 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/4 × 13/16 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Men Splashing in the Reeds (Sich Spritzende Männer im Schilf)

1910

lithograph on yellow wove paper

plate: 27.9 × 37.7 cm (11 × 14 13/16 in.) sheet: 31 × 43 cm (12 3/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Naked Girl on a Carpet (Nacktes Mädchen auf Teppich)

1924

woodcut on yellow Japanese paper

sheet: 60 × 35.9 cm (23 5/8 × 14 1/8 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Old Market in Dresden with a Fair (Der Altmarkt in Dresden mit Jahrmarkt)

1910

lithograph on wove paper

image: 32.6 x 38.5 cm (12 13/16 x 15 3/16 in.) sheet: 42.7 x 51.3 cm (16 13/16 x 20 3/16 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Rocky Stream

1919

lithograph printed in black

image: 27.5 x 32.5 cm (10 13/16 x 12 13/16 in.) sheet: 37 x 42.7 cm (14 9/16 x 16 13/16 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Seehorn

1919

etching on gray wove paper

image: 28.2 × 25.08 cm (11 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.) sheet: 41.4 × 34.7 cm (16 5/16 × 13 11/16 in.) (irregular)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Self-Portrait in the Studio (Selbstbildnis im Atelier)

1923

black crayon on board

sheet: 49.8 × 33.9 cm (19 5/8 × 13 3/8 in.)

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Kollwitz, Käthe

Self-Portrait with Hand on Forehead (Selbstbildnis mit der Hand an der Stirn)

1910

etching and drypoint in black-brown ink on wove paper

plate: 15.5 x 13.6 cm (6 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.) sheet: 43.3 x 30.2 cm (17 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.)

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Schiele, Egon

Sorrow (Kümmernis)

1914, published 1922

drypoint in dark green on laid paper

plate: 47.5 x 31.6 cm (18 11/16 x 12 7/16 in.) sheet: 70.6 x 51 cm (27 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

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Mueller, Otto

Standing Boy and Two Girls (second version) (Stehender Knabe und zwei Mädchen 2 )

1917

lithograph on gray wove paper

sheet: 49.85 × 39.37 cm (19 5/8 × 15 1/2 in.) image: 32.39 × 24.77 cm (12 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)

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Schiele, Egon

Standing Nude with a Patterned Robe

1917

opaque watercolor and charcoal on wove paper

sheet: 29.3 × 45.9 cm (11 9/16 × 18 1/16 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Street Scene after the Rain (Straßenszene, Nach dem Regen)

1914

woodcut on Japanese paper

image: 26.51 × 24.7 cm (10 7/16 × 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 45.09 × 34.29 cm (17 3/4 × 13 1/2 in.) plate: 29.85 × 26.67 cm (11 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)

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Gramatté, Walter

The Couple, Self-Portrait with Wife (Das Paar, Selbstporträt mit Frau)

1922

drypoint, printed in blue-green, on wove paper

sheet: 54.13 × 37.5 cm (21 5/16 × 14 3/4 in.) plate: 24.5 × 25.4 cm (9 5/8 × 10 in.)

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Corinth, Lovis

The Fall of Man (Der Sündenfall)

1919

color woodcut with unique inking on wove paper

sheet: 30.5 × 23.5 cm (12 × 9 1/4 in.) image: 25.08 × 24.49 cm (9 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.)

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Corinth, Lovis

The Fall of Man (Der Sündenfall)

1919

woodcut on laid paper

image: 25.08 × 23.3 cm (9 7/8 × 9 3/16 in.) sheet: 48.1 × 38.1 cm (18 15/16 × 15 in.)

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Gramatté, Walter

The Great Anxiety (Self-Portrait in Three-Quarter Profile to the Right) (Die große Angst [Selbstportrat, Kopf im Halbprofil nach rechts])

1918

drypoint with transparent watercolor

sheet: 30 × 23.81 cm (11 13/16 × 9 3/8 in.)

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Gramatté, Walter

The Great Anxiety (Self-Portrait, in Three-Quarter Profile to the Right) (Die große Angst [Selbstportrat, Kopf im Halbprofil nach rechts])

1918

drypoint on wove paper

plate: 29.9 x 24.1 cm (11 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 40.1 x 30.7 cm (15 13/16 x 12 1/16 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

The Married Couple Müller (Ehepaar Müller)

1919

woodcut on pink blotting paper

image: 35 x 42.5 cm (13 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.) sheet: 43.3 x 55.3 cm (17 1/16 x 21 3/4 in.)

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Rohlfs, Christian

The Prisoner (Der Gefangene)

1918

woodcut on wove paper

image: 60.3 x 46 cm (23 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.) sheet: 60.3 x 46 cm (23 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.)

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Gangolf, Paul

Tightrope Walker (Seiltanzer)

c. 1925 - 1930

lithograph with scraping and transparent watercolor on gray wove paper

sheet: 48.2 x 37.5 cm (19 x 14 3/4 in.) [irregular] plate: 27.5 x 23 cm (10 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.) [irregular]

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Titelblatt (title page) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1924

woodcut, printed in red and black, on wove paper from a bound volume with 50 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers)

book: 23.8 × 16.5 × 1.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Titelblatt (title page) from mock-up of Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1912/1922

woodcut from a 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

Titelvignette (Title vignette) from Georg Heym: Umbra Vitae (Georg Heym: Shadow of Life)

1924

woodcut from a bound volume with 50 woodcuts (including cover and front and back endpapers) on wove paper

book: 23.8 × 16.5 × 1.2 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 × 1/2 in.)

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Mueller, Otto

Two Bathers

c. 1920

transparent watercolor and colored crayons on wove paper

overall: 68.7 × 52.71 cm (27 1/16 × 20 3/4 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Two Bathers on the Fehmarn Coast (Zwei Badende am hoher Fehmarnküste)

1912

brush and black ink on wove paper

sheet: 58.1 × 45.9 cm (22 7/8 × 18 1/16 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Two Women (Zwei Frauen)

1914

lithograph, printed in black and pale orange inks, on wove paper

image: 42 x 32 cm (16 9/16 x 12 5/8 in.) sheet: 53.8 x 41.9 cm (21 3/16 x 16 1/2 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Two Women in the Room (Zwei Frauen im Raum)

c. 1906

brush and black ink on wove paper

sheet: 30.8 × 31.12 cm (12 1/8 × 12 1/4 in.)

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Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Women Bathing Between White Stones (Badende Frauen Zwischen Weissen Steinen)

1912

color woodcut on Japanese paper

image: 28.4 × 27.6 cm (11 3/16 × 10 7/8 in.) sheet: 40.48 × 31.7 cm (15 15/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

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