North German Girl

Prints and Drawings

c. 1920

Otto Dix
German, 1891-1969

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Otto Dix
Title: North German Girl
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1915–1925
Medium: Graphite, with stumping, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 29.4 × 26.8 cm (11 5/8 × 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Stanley M. Freehling Family Foundation
Reference Number: 1967.246
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Ulrike Lorenz, Otto Dix: Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle II (Weimar 2003), p. 749, no. EDV 6.1.19 (ill.).
Maria Makela, “‘A Clear and Simple Style’: Tradition and Typology in New Objectivity,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 28:1 (2002), p. 50, fig. 15.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “German Art of the Past: Prints and Drawings from Friedrich to Baselitz,” June 15-September 22. 2002.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage,” June 14-September 14, 2008.

Sold by the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1967.

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