Out of Work, 1909

Not on View

Medium

black chalk and white opaque watercolor over blue pencil on gray-brown wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 29 x 44.4 cm (11 7/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagel 1972, no. 545

Accession Number

1943.3.5218

Artists / Makers

Käthe Kollwitz (artist) German, 1867 - 1945

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz / Arbeitslosigkeit 1909; lower right verso Kathe Kollwitz / Berlin / Weissenburger str. 25; lower left in graphite: (schwarz + Braun)

Provenance

Dr. Alfred Rose; LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b), 1942.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 115 (as Unemployment).

1992: Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 65, reproduced p. 50.

2001: A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 12.

2024: Käthe Kollwitz: A Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2024.

Bibliography

1959: Bittner, Herbert. Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings. New York, 1959: 49.

1972: Nagel, Otto. The Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne; Crown Publishers, 1972.

1993: "Moving Images." Scholastic Art 24 (December 1993/January 1994): p. 6.

1995: Katz, Elizabeth L. et al. Themes and Foundations of Art. West Publishing Company, 1995: fig. 1-6.

2001: A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 12.