Prisoners Listening to Music

1925

Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 44 x 37.2 cm (17 5/16 x 14 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1954.12.27

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagel 1972, no. 1063

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Society of Brothers; acquired 14 April 1953 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1954 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1959

  • Käthe Kollwitz, circulated by the American Federation of Arts to ten venues (Time, Inc., New York, NY; Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK; Pensacola Art Center, Pensacola, FL; The J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL; St. Paul's School, Concord, NH; Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA; Tacoma Art League, Tacoma, WA; and Fine Arts Museum of San Diego, San Diego, CA), 1959-1960, no cat.

Bibliography

1959

  • Bittner, Herbert. Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings. New York, 1959: 113.

1972

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

1979

  • Withers, Josephine. Women Artists in Washington Collections. University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, 1979: 42.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Original / Litho / zeich[nung]; other hand lower right verso inscription dated 1944

Wikidata ID

Q64591954

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