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Photo Credit: photo: R. Lee
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The Owl (Die Eule)
192120th century
280 x 238 mm (11 x 9.4 in.)
Gerhard Marcks, German, (1889–1981)
Object Type:
print
Medium and Support:
Woodcut on wove paper
Print impression quality:
Very good
Edition:
Published in first Bauhaus portfolio, according to Carey and Griffiths
Marks:
Signed in pencil, lower right: “G. Marcks 1921”; embossed, lower left: “Weimar”
Bibliography:
Heinz Peters, Die Bauhaus Mappen: Neue europäische Graphik 1921–23 (Koln, 1957), cat. no. 1/8; Carey and Griffiths 1984, cat. no. 198.
Credit Line:
Purchase funds, 1958
Accession Number:
1958.1.1
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- animals - This section can use more hierarchical (quasi-Linnaean) refinement in future; extant terms were assembled into a fairly flat and slightly redundant structure to expedite conversion.
- birds
- Expressionist
- German Expressionism
- owls
Dimensions
- image Dimensions: 280 x 238 mm (11 x 9.4 in.)
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Credit Caption
Gerhard Marcks, German, (1889–1981) . The Owl (Die Eule), 1921. Woodcut on wove paper. image : 280 x 238 mm (11 x 9.4 in.). Sheet : 382 x 281 mm (15 x 11.1 in.). DAC accession number 1958.1.1. Purchase funds, 1958. (photo: R. Lee) .