Der Polster (The Cushion)

1903

Max Kurzweil

Artist, Austrian, 1867 - 1916

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    colour woodcut on thin Japanese tissue, attached to a dark brown support sheet

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 28.5 × 25.9 cm (11 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 38.7 × 30.8 cm (15 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.342

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased July 29, 1976; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Inscriptions

on support sheet, in letterpress: "DER POLSTER": FARBIGER ORIGINALHOLZSCHNITT VOM MAXIMILIAN KURZWEIL. VERLAG DER GESELLSCHAFT FÜR VERVIELFÄLTIGENDE KUNST, WIEN.

Wikidata ID

Q76556675

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