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Käthe Kollwitz

The Sacrifice (Das Opfer), 1922/1923

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series Title

War: pl.1 [Klipstein 1955 177-183]

Medium

woodcut in black, reworked with white gouache, on japan paper [trial proof]

Dimensions

image: 37.2 x 40.2 cm (14 5/8 x 15 13/16 in.)

sheet: 41.5 x 43.7 cm (16 5/16 x 17 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Klipstein 1955, no. 177, State ii/vii (trial proof)

Accession Number

1947.7.67

Artists / Makers

Käthe Kollwitz (artist) German, 1867 - 1945

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz; lower left in graphite: 2 zustand

Provenance

LJR

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 93, repro.

1992: Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 82, reproduced p. 57.

Bibliography

1955: Klipstein, August. The Graphic Work of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1955.

2002: Knesebeck, Alexandra von dem. Käthe Kollwitz. Werkverzeichnis der Graphik. 2 vols. Bern: Kornfeld, 2002.

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