Street (Strasse)

Otto Dix · 1920

Here we have Street (Strasse) — a print by Dix, nineteen twenty. Drypoint, scratched straight into the plate; the raised burr either side of the line holds ink and prints soft. In the picture, look for the war.

Medium Drypoint · Dimensions plate: 9 3/4 x 8 3/4" (24.8 x 22.3 cm); sheet (irreg.): 13 9/16 x 12" (34.4 x 30.5 cm) · Credit Deborah Wye Endowment Fund and The Print Associates Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 514: Give us this day / our daily bread (Unser täglich Brot / gieb uns heute) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), Proletarian Intellectuals [Else Schuler, Tristan Rémy, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Gerd Arntz]

More by Otto Dix here: Dr. Mayer-Hermann, Portrait of Violinist Carlo von Rust (Bildnis des Geigers Carlo von Rust)