Acker mit Weib (Woman in a Field), 1912

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on Japan tissue

Dimensions

plate: 37.6 × 57.7 cm (14 13/16 × 22 11/16 in.)

sheet: 46.6 × 64 cm (18 3/8 × 25 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Witte 1991, no. 38, State only

Accession Number

2012.92.389

Artists / Makers

Wilhelm Morgner (artist) German, 1891 - 1917

Image Use

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Inscription

titled, signed and dated below image: Acker mit Weib - Holzschnitt Handdruck No. 1 Wilhelm Morgner. 1912; below image, in graphite, by later hand: Gr. 6660; 1/7.

Provenance

Heinrich Stinnes [1867-1932], Cologne (Lugt 1376a). (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 25, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Maass, Jörg
Stinnes, Heinrich

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1991: Witte, Andrea. Wilhelm Morgner, 1891-1917, Graphik: Verzeichnis sämtlicher Holz- und Linolschnitte, Lithographien und Radierungen. Soest: Westfälische Verlagsbuchhandlung Mocker & Jahn, 1991: no. 38, only