Gedicht

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Gedicht

c. 1952-1958 (print); 1960 (publication)

Jacques Lipchitz (American (born Lithuania), 1891–1973) Printed by Andersen-Lamb, Brooklyn Published by Morris Gallery, New York

Like Lipchitz, the German poet and art critic Hans Sahl (1902-1993) directly addressed the threat posed by the rise of Fascism and anti-Semitism in Europe in the 1930s. After World War II, Sahl began writing poetry that expressed his views on politics and described his flight from the Holocaust. It was almost certainly this shared experience that drew Lipchitz to Sahl's work: the artist created Gedicht to illustrate a poem of the same name in the portfolio Twenty-One Etchings and Poems, published by the Morris Gallery, New York, in 1960.

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Object Details

Titles:

Gedicht
From the portfolio Twenty-One Etchings and Poems

Date:

c. 1952-1958 (print); 1960 (publication)

Artists:

Jacques Lipchitz (American (born Lithuania), 1891–1973) Printed by Andersen-Lamb, Brooklyn Published by Morris Gallery, New York

Medium:

Etching (lift-ground)

Dimensions:

Plate: 13 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches (35.2 x 29.8 cm) Sheet: 19 7/8 x 16 7/8 inches (50.5 x 42.9 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Gift of David N. Pincus, 1963

Accession Number:

1963-179-1j

Geography:

Made in New York, New York, United States, North and Central America

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