Head of a Girl (Mädchenkopf )

1920

Max Kaus

Artist, German, 1891 - 1977

Fritz Voigt

Printer

Gustav Kiepenheuer

Publisher, German, 1880 - 1949

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    block: 28.6 x 12.5 cm (11 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 40.9 x 31 cm (16 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.98.292

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Krause 2016, no. H 1920/11, B

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Peter Deitsch Fine Arts, Inc., New York); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased May 25, 1970; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, as Head of a Girl.

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

2016

  • Krause, Markus. Max Kaus: Werkverzeichnis der Druckgrafik. Munich: Hirmer, 2016, no. H 1920/11.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Max Kaus 20; by later hand, lower left in graphite: gedr. F Voigt

Markings

blind stamp: DIE/SCHAF/FEN/DEN

Wikidata ID

Q76348438

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