The People

1922/1923

Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    block: 35.8 x 30 cm (14 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 74.8 x 54 cm (29 7/16 x 21 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.98.352

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Klipstein 1955, no. 123

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • German Expressionist Prints from the Collection of Ruth and Jacob Kainen, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1985: no. 70.

2002

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, as The People from the series War.

Bibliography

1955

  • Klipstein, August. The Graphic Work of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1955, no. 123.

2002

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

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 46/100; lower right in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz

Wikidata ID

Q76346981

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