Wilfrid Moser (Switzerland, 1914-1997)Plurima Mortis Imago (macabre dance Stalingrad). 1942. A large album in-fol. containing 8 plates of engraved wood. Beautiful proofs on thin laid Japanese, justified and signed in pencil, mounted by the upper corners under the original passe-partout. Some clear freckles and small ripples on the leaves. All margins. Black cardboard wallet with label on the 1st plate (faded). Of all rareness. This macabre expressionist dance of Zurich's Moser is nourished by the influence of Kirchner's engraved woodcuts, but also by Dürer's Cavaliers de l'Apocalypse, Käthe Kollwitz or Goya. Moser engraved it before the news of the battle of Stalingrad was even known. Some subjects mention the concentration camps and the arrest of the artist's friend, John Rittmeister, as an opponent of the Nazi regime. The series also refers to Moser's personal loss, whose son Manuel, born in 1942, died shortly after his birth. This Macabre Dance was exhibited in its entirety for the first time in the Zurich bookshop of Dr. Oprecht (1895-1952), where opponents of the Third Reich and intellectuals in exile found themselves.