Der Polster (The Cushion), 1903

Not on View

Medium

colour woodcut on thin Japanese tissue, attached to a dark brown support sheet

Dimensions

plate: 28.5 × 25.9 cm (11 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.)

sheet: 38.7 × 30.8 cm (15 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Accession Number

2012.92.342

Artists / Makers

Max Kurzweil (artist) Austrian, 1867 - 1916

Image Use

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Inscription

on support sheet, in letterpress: "DER POLSTER": FARBIGER ORIGINALHOLZSCHNITT VOM MAXIMILIAN KURZWEIL. VERLAG DER GESELLSCHAFT FÜR VERVIELFÄLTIGENDE KUNST, WIEN.

Provenance

(Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased July 29, 1976; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Mulder, Frederick, Mr.

Exhibition History

2014: Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.