Head and Hands of a Working Man

1921

Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

Käthe Kollwitz

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal on gray paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 50.2 x 65 cm (19 3/4 x 25 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.5215

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagel 1972, no. 915

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Robert Carlen, Philadelphia); sold 25 February 1943 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1959

  • Bittner, Herbert. Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings. New York, 1959: 76.

1972

  • Nagel, Otto. The Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne; Crown Publishers, 1972.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz; upper left verso upside down: Arbeitsloser / [Holzs...]; unknown hand lower right verso in graphite: ... Arbeitsloser ...

Wikidata ID

Q64591934

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