Meiner Frau

1920

Johannes Molzahn

Associated Names
Johannes Molzahn

Artist, German, 1892 - 1965

The image depicts interconnected swirls, curves, and angular lines. The forms twist and overlap, resembling spirals, loops, and undulating motion. Geometric shapes like triangles and circles merge with organic strokes.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, spit-bite and open-bite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.3 × 11.7 cm (7 3/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 49.4 × 33 cm (19 7/16 × 13 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.386

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Salzmann 1977, no. 26, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1977

  • Salzmann, Siegfried, Güse, Ernst-Gerhard, Lange, Barbara. Johannes Molzahn: Das druckgraphische Werk. Duisburg: Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum der Stadt, 1977: nos. 26, only

Inscriptions

signed and dated below image, in graphite: Joh Molzahn 20; at the bottom of the sheet, in graphite: J: 13-23/XXIII Meiner Frau

Wikidata ID

Q76556791

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