Two Nudes

1904/1906

Käthe Kollwitz

Associated Names
Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

The image is a charcoal drawing of two human figures shown from the upper back down to their calves. The figure on the left appears slightly bent forward with one arm raised, while the figure on the right stands upright. Only the outlined musculature and basic anatomical features of their backs and legs are depicted, with no specific facial features or hair visible. There is no clothing shown, and the background is plain. A signature is visible at the bottom right corner of the drawing.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 61.2 x 48 cm (24 1/8 x 18 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1954.12.29

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagel 1972, no. 348

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1999

  • Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Dahesh Museum, New York; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 1999-2000, 4, fig. 2. (Williamstown and New York only).

Bibliography

1959

  • Bittner, Herbert. Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings. New York, 1959: 116.

1972

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

1999

  • Weisberg, Gabriel P. and Jane R. Becker, eds. Overcoming All Obstacles:The Women of the Académie Julian. New York, 1999: fig. 2.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Kollwitz; inscription dated 1944on verso

Watermarks

INGRES JCA France

Wikidata ID

Q64591956

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