Exchange: Orpheus Series. NO. 2: Orpheus Singing

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Netta Berlin

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May 25, 2022 2:36 p.m.

5 Items in this Learning Collection

Orpheus

This print shows a standing male nude outlined in black, and colored in pink and tan on a white background. His right leg is bent at the knee and is raised behind him, his foot pointing backwards. He has dark curly hair, and he cradles an instrument against his chest.

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Orpheus Series. NO. 2: Orpheus Singing

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Orpheus Series. No. 4: Orpheus and Eurydice

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Orpheus in the Underworld, No. 6 from the Orpheus Series.

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Orpheus Mourning, No. 7 from the Orpheus Series

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Sp23 Germany Rocks: Protest and Music

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Mary M Gell

Last Updated

May 25, 2022 2:36 p.m.

17 Items in this Learning Collection

Child Run Over

In the foreground, a man and a woman carry a child as they move to the left of the page. The man carries the child's body, while the woman holds the childs head. The man's face is turned towards the left, while the woman's head is bowed toward the child. The man and woman are dressed in dark clothes, while the child is shown in white. The child's arm hangs limp. A crowd of children is gathered in the background, looking at the three main figures.

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Visit to the Hospital

A woman sits on the edge of a bed in which a figure lays. A child stands next to the woman. A chair with a bag on it sits in the right bottom corner.

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Untitled

A woodcut image of a crowd of men carrying weapons, agricultural tools, and flags. A woman flies in the air above the men looking back to the left of the piece.

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The Downtrodden (Zertretene)

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'Bauernkrieg' (Peasant War Cycle). Losbruch (Outbreak)

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The Weavers Cycle: March of the Weavers (from a set of 6 prints)

The scene depicts a group of figures marching in the foreground from the left to the right of the composition. A thin sliver of land can be seen in the background. A man in the center carries a scythe over his shoulder. A woman in the center right carries a child on her back.

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Arbeitsfrau mit dem Ohrring

This etching is a portrait of a woman; just her face is visible. The background is almost solidly black, and the darkness encrouches on the portrait. The woman looks off the left of the page, and a small earring is visible on her right ear. The print is signed in pencil (l.r.) "Kathe Kollwitz".

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Hunger

This sparely executed lithograph depicts, from left to right, a young boy, an aged man in a hat, and an aged woman in a shawl looking at the food on display in a shop window, bananas, cheese, sausage, and wine, among other items.

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In Prison

A man clothed in pants, shoes, and a long-sleeved shirt sits at a small table with his hands folded. Part of a loaf of bread sits on the upper left corner of the table. The man is in a small room with a small, square, barred window high on the wall behind him. There is a toilet without a lid behind him to his left.

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Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten")

A group of laborers, wearing hats and jackets, walks from viewer's right to left along a street littered with garbage. The two in the front carry shovels. In the background is an industrial landscape, dirty and in disrepair.

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Drinking Song (?), from "Stadtnacht, Plate 1 (Trinklied - aus der Mappe "Stadtnacht" Blatt 1)"

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The Lord's Prayer, sheet 1 (Das Vaterunser)

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Noah and the Dove

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The Lord's Prayer, sheet 6 - And Forgive Us Our Sins (Das Vaterunser - Und vergieb uns unsre Schuld)

A group of seven men kneel and pray around a radiant figure representing God. God is in the viewer's upper left, and the supplicants are arranged around him. Hands project into the scene from behind God, suggesting additional figures kneeling in prayer behind.

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The Lord's Prayer, sheet 5 - Give Us this Day Our Daily Bread (Das Vaterunser - Unser täglich Brot gieb uns heute)

Four men in plain, dark clothing sit, with hands folded in prayer, around a rectangular table, in the center of which is a fish on an oval platter. The man at the far end has his eyes closed. The other three raise their faces to heaven.

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The Snake Charmer

Geometrically patterned composition with bright saturated colors composed of a central female figure with mermaid’s tail and bright red mane of hair; skull-headed figure at left with guitar; two green monster-like figures in upper right quadrant; two black fish with blue eyes near center.

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Orpheus Series. NO. 2: Orpheus Singing

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5 Items in this Learning Collection

Orpheus

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Orpheus Series. NO. 2: Orpheus Singing

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Orpheus Series. No. 4: Orpheus and Eurydice

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Orpheus in the Underworld, No. 6 from the Orpheus Series.

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Orpheus Mourning, No. 7 from the Orpheus Series

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Orpheus Series. NO. 2: Orpheus Singing

Accession Number
1953/2.46

Title
Orpheus Series. NO. 2: Orpheus Singing

Artist(s)
Gerhard Marcks

Object Creation Date
1948

Medium & Support
woodblock on paper

Dimensions
11 ⅛ in x 5 11/16 in (28.26 cm x 14.45 cm);18 ⅛ in x 13 ½ in (46.04 cm x 34.29 cm);22 ⅛ in x 18 ⅛ in (56.2 cm x 46.04 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://umma.umich.edu/request-image for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.

Keywords
Birds
Expressionism
Musical instruments
cats
deer
harps
literary
modern and contemporary art
seated