Four People Seated on a Bench

1904

Käthe Kollwitz

Associated Names
Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

The image shows three individuals seated on a bench. They are drawn in a slouched position, with minimal facial details and covered or closely cropped hair. They wear long garments and one of them wears a cap. The setting is minimal, with only the bench visible. The medium is pencil on textured light beige paper, with the artist's signature and date of 1912 below the sketch.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24.6 x 35.5 cm (9 11/16 x 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.7.66

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagel 1972, no. 287

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Robert Carlen, Philadelphia); sold 24 December 1946 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1947 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Käthe Kollwitz: Meisterwerke der Zeichnung, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, Cologne, 1995.

Bibliography

1959

  • Bittner, Herbert. Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings. New York, 1959: 60.

1972

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

Inscriptions

Signed by artist at later date, lower right: Kathe Kollwitz (1912.)

Wikidata ID

Q64591949

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