Käthe Kollwitz

Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind)

1903

Line etching, drypoint, sandpaper, and soft ground with the imprint of laid paper and Ziegler’s transfer paper, overworked with charcoal

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Medium Line etching, drypoint, sandpaper, and soft ground with the imprint of laid paper and Ziegler’s transfer paper, overworked with charcoal
Dimensions sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16 3/4 × 19 1/8" (42.5 × 48.6 cm)
Edition one of twenty-two known proofs (states I – VIII) before the edition of 50 in 1918; later re-prints (states IX – X) include editions in unspecified numbers in 1921, and between 1931 and 1941.
Credit Acquired through the generosity of the Contemporary Drawing and Print Associates
Object number 113.2024
Department Drawings and Prints

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Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz

German, 1867–1945 49 works online

Born in the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1867, Käthe Kollwitz established herself in an art world dominated by men by developing an aesthetic vision centered on women and the working class.

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