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Käthe Kollwitz
The Survivors1923

On view: BCAM 3rd FloorDanse Macabre: Death in Print from Dürer to Dix
Charcoal drawing of a central woman cradling an infant, surrounded by crowded adult and children's faces, with heavy smudging and bold lines on pale paper

Käthe Kollwitz, The Survivors, 1923, 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 Survivors
Date Made
1923
Medium
Charcoal on gray wove paper
Dimensions
Mat: 26 × 32 in. (66.04 × 81.28 cm) Sheet: 19 1/2 × 25 1/2 in. (49.53 × 64.77 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Kallir Family
Accession Number
M.2025.10.25
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; by descent to his son, John Kallir (1923–2022), New York; by descent to the Kallir Family Foundation, New York, 2022; given in 2025 to LACMA.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, photo courtesy Kallir Research Institute, New York

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