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The Wormhole (Der Wurmstich), from the portfolio A Modern Dance of Death (Ein Moderner Todentanz)

The Wormhole (Der Wurmstich), from the portfolio A Modern Dance of Death (Ein Moderner Todentanz)

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Josef Sattler

The fifteenth century imagery of death the destroyer is here printed using the modern method of photogravure.
Artist
Josef Sattler
(German, 1867 - 1931)
Title
The Wormhole (Der Wurmstich), from the portfolio A Modern Dance of Death (Ein Moderner Todentanz)
Date
1894
Medium
Color photogravure
Dimensions
5 9/16 x 4 1/2 in. image
Credit
Gift of Howard Schneider
Accession No.
1981.17d
Classification
Prints
Geography
Germany

Related

9 October 1981, gifted by Howard Schneider (Chapel Hill, NC) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Nineteenth-Century European Prints: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 3/13/2004–5/30/2004

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