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Expressive bust-length portrait of a man sketching with distorted face and skull in background
Tod und Künstler (Death and the Artist), from the series Totentanz (Dance of Death)
Expressive bust-length portrait of a man sketching with distorted face and skull in background

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

Artist (German, 1858 - 1925)
Publisher (German, 1920 - 1927)
Printer (German)
Date1921, published 1922
MediumEtching, soft-ground etching and drypoint on paper
Dimensionsimage: 9 3/8 in x 7 in; sheet: 13.25 in x 9.25 in x in
ClassificationPrint
Credit LineMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Gift of James and Pamela Elesh
Object number1999.21.13
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