The People (Das Volk)

1922/1923

Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut touched with opaque white watercolor and black wash on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 36 × 30 cm (14 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 41.6 × 35.3 cm (16 3/8 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.5278

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Klipstein 1955, no. 183, State i/v

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1992

  • Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 85, reproduced p. 59.

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

recto: below image at right in graphite: Kollwitz; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: 1 Zust. / 5 "Das Volk"; verso: at bottom right in graphite in later hand: 33-3507; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: Das Volk 1. Zustand"

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65022795

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