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Käthe Kollwitz
The Prisoners1908

On view: BCAM 3rd FloorDanse Macabre: Death in Print from Dürer to Dix
Charcoal drawing of a densely packed crowd of standing figures in loose robes, rendered with gestural strokes on cream paper

Käthe Kollwitz, The Prisoners, 1908, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Kallir Family, Kallir Research Institute, New York.

Artist or Maker
Käthe Kollwitz
Germany, 1867-1945
Title
The Prisoners
Date Made
1908
Medium
Charcoal on white Ingres paper
Dimensions
Mat: 23 1/4 × 24 7/8 in. (59.06 × 63.18 cm) Sheet: 18 1/2 × 23 1/8 in. (46.99 × 58.74 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Kallir Family
Accession Number
M.2025.10.24
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance
The artist (1867–1945). Walter Wolf, Zurich, Switzerland; Otto Kallir (1894–1978), New York, 1955; given to his son, John Kallir (1923–2022), New York, 1956; by descent to the Kallir Family Foundation, 2022; given in 2025 to LACMA.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, photo courtesy Kallir Research Institute, New York