The danse macabre (dance of death)—a visual allegory of life’s impermanence depicted by lively dancing skeletons popularized in woodcut illustrations as early as the 14th century—was taken up by German Expressionist artists by World War I. See how they deployed motifs of skulls, hourglasses, and personifications of Death to evoke the grim circumstances of war, revolution, and industrialization in Danse Macabre: Death in Print from Durer to Dix, now on view in the Modern Art Galleries.
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