Meine Frau (My Wife)

1920

Bernhard Kretzschmar

Artist, German, 1889 - 1972

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint, etching and open bite on heavy wove cream paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 32.7 × 22.7 cm (12 7/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 52.6 × 43.7 cm (20 11/16 × 17 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.338

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schmidt 1980, Vol. (R), no. 31, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galleria Henze SAS, Lugano); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (variant of Lugt 4740), purchased June 28, 1974; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1980

  • Schmidt, Gudrun. Bernhard Kretzschmar: Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik 1914 bis 1969. Berlin: Galerie Arkade, 1981: no. 31, only.

Inscriptions

below image, at left, in graphite: Meine Frau 1920 / Probedrucke; below image, at right, in graphite: B Kretzschmar 20; at bottom right corner of the sheet, in graphite, by later hand: R.; on verso, in graphite, by later hand: L107; 98

Wikidata ID

Q76556663

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