The Prisoner (Der Gefangene)

1918

Christian Rohlfs

Artist, German, 1849 - 1938

Christian Rohlfs

Printer, German, 1849 - 1938

unpublished

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 60.3 x 46 cm (23 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 60.3 x 46 cm (23 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.98.343

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Vogt 1960, no. 107, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lawrence Gichner/Adventures in Art, Washington, D.C.); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 24, 1964; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • German Expressionist Prints from the Collection of Ruth and Jacob Kainen, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1985: no. 69.

2002

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

2024

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

Bibliography

1960

  • Vogt, Paul. Christian Rohlfs; das graphische Werk. Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1960.

Inscriptions

"Chr Rohlfs" lower right corner in graphite.

Wikidata ID

Q76337417

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