The People (Das Volk), 1922/1923

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series Title

Plate 7 from War (Krieg)

Medium

woodcut touched with opaque white watercolor and black wash on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 36 × 30 cm (14 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

sheet: 41.6 × 35.3 cm (16 3/8 × 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Klipstein 1955, no. 183, State i/v

Accession Number

1943.3.5278

Artists / Makers

Käthe Kollwitz (artist) German, 1867 - 1945

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Inscription

recto: below image at right in graphite: Kollwitz; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: 1 Zust. / 5 "Das Volk"; verso: at bottom right in graphite in later hand: 33-3507; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: Das Volk 1. Zustand"

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1992: Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 85, reproduced p. 59.

Bibliography

1955: Klipstein, August. The Graphic Work of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1955.

2002: Knesebeck, Alexandra von dem. Käthe Kollwitz. Werkverzeichnis der Graphik. 2 vols. Bern: Kornfeld, 2002.