The Mothers

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The Mothers

Alternate Title: Die Mütter
Edition: From edition A, 18/100
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Sieben Holzschnitte zum Krieg
Portfolio (translation): Seven Woodcuts on the War
Plate: plate 6
Germany, 1921-22
Prints; woodcuts
Woodcut on Japan paper
Image: 13 3/8 x 15 3/4 in. (33.97 x 40.01 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.193f)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Klipstein, August. Käthe Kollwitz : Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes. Bern : Klipstein, 1955.
  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

    View Volume 1 of this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

    View Volume 2 of this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

  • McGreevy, Linda F.  Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great War.  New York: Peter Lang, Inc., 2001.
  • Benson, Timothy O. and Andrea Gyorody. A New Generation of Creators: Selections from The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017.
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