Schwangerschaft. 1922.
Drypoint.
Signed, numbered and inscribed "II". From an edition of 50 copies. On copper plate printing paper. 34.6 x 27.4 cm (13.6 x 10.7 in). Sheet: 49,8 x 44,1 cm (19,6 x 17,5 in).
Released in the portfolio "Tod und Auferstehung", published by Otto Dix. [JS].

• There is an almost disturbing directness to the way in which Dix's central pictorial themes of life and death collide in this work.
• Shortly before the birth of his own children, Dix found his perfect imagery of brutal hopelessness in the pregnant woman, who was severely affected by social injustices.
• The hopeful purity of the beginning of life is transformed into its painful opposite in Dix's masterful Verism.

PROVENANCE: Privatse collection, South Germany.

LITERATURE: Florian Karsch (ed.), Otto Dix. Das graphische Werk, Hanover 1970, no. 46/II.

The depiction is well preserved. Traces of creasing and rubbing in the wide margin, as well as slightly lackluster and a few isolated stains. Small defects in the left and right edges, and a few small tears in the left and upper margin.
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