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Max Kaus

Head of a Girl (Mädchenkopf ), 1920

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series Title

from the periodical in portfolio form Die Schaffenden (The Creators), vol. 3, no. 1

Medium

woodcut on wove paper

Dimensions

block: 28.6 x 12.5 cm (11 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.)

sheet: 40.9 x 31 cm (16 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jacob Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Krause 2016, no. H 1920/11, B

Accession Number

2002.98.292

Artists / Makers

Max Kaus (artist) German, 1891 - 1977

Fritz Voigt (printer)

Gustav Kiepenheuer (publisher) German, 1880 - 1949

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Max Kaus 20; by later hand, lower left in graphite: gedr. F Voigt

Marks and Labels

blind stamp: DIE/SCHAF/FEN/DEN

Provenance

(Peter Deitsch Fine Arts, Inc., New York); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased May 25, 1970; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Deitsch, Peter H.
Kainen, Jacob

Exhibition History

2002: An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, as Head of a Girl.

2024: The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

2016: Krause, Markus. Max Kaus: Werkverzeichnis der Druckgrafik. Munich: Hirmer, 2016, no. H 1920/11.