Death, Mother and Child

1910

Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal on laid Ingres paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 48 x 63.3 cm (18 7/8 x 24 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1951.16.60

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagel 1972, no. 605


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of the artist. Lessing J.Rosenwald; gift 1951 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 68, reproduced p. 51.

2024

  • Käthe Kollwitz: A Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2024.

Bibliography

1959

  • Bittner, Herbert. Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings. New York, 1959: 59.

1972

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

1994

  • The World's My Oyster: A Celebration of Kathe Kollwitz, 1994, vol. 1,no. 3.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz

Watermarks

MBM (FRANCE) INGRES D'ARCHES

Wikidata ID

Q64591953


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