The Sacrifice (Das Opfer)

1922/1923

Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

Käthe Kollwitz

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in black, reworked with white gouache, on japan paper [trial proof]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 37.2 x 40.2 cm (14 5/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 41.5 x 43.7 cm (16 5/16 x 17 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.7.67

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Klipstein 1955, no. 177, State ii/vii (trial proof)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

LJR

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 93, repro.

1992

  • Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 82, reproduced p. 57.

Bibliography

1955

  • Klipstein, August. The Graphic Work of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1955.

2002

  • Knesebeck, Alexandra von dem. Käthe Kollwitz. Werkverzeichnis der Graphik. 2 vols. Bern: Kornfeld, 2002.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz; lower left in graphite: 2 zustand

Wikidata ID

Q65080417

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