The Head of a Dead Man II | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR54.130
People: Gerhard Marcks, German (Berlin, Germany 1889 - 1981 Burgbrohl, Germany)
Title: The Head of a Dead Man II
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Das Totenhaupt II
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1923
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/223825

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Woodcut printed in black ink on off-white wove paper

Technique

Woodcut

Dimensions

block: 24.3 x 19.5 cm (9 9/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
sheet: 31.1 x 25.7 cm (12 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in graphite at l.r.: [monogram] 1923
inscription: l.c., graphite, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: Das Totenhaupt

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Lammek H85

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lyonel Feininger
Accession Year: 1954
Object Number: BR54.130
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

Bauhaus Art and Design, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/07/1982 - 10/30/1982
Prints in Weimar Germany: 1918-1933, Block Gallery, Evanston, 01/06/1994 - 03/13/1994; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/08/1994 - 07/26/1994; University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, 09/09/1994 - 10/16/1994

Subjects and Contexts

The Bauhaus

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BR54.130: The Head of a Dead Man II