Prisoners Listening to Music

1925

Käthe Kollwitz

Associated Names
Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

The image shows a pencil drawing of three individuals depicted from the shoulders up. The person at the bottom looks upward, with shaded facial features and closely cropped hair. To the left is another person with a similar hairstyle, slightly leaning and looking straight ahead. The third figure on the right poses with their head resting on their hand and a contemplative expression. The figures have minimal clothing details. The background is bare, putting emphasis on the subjects. The artwork is signed in the bottom-right corner.
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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 Number

    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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