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Collections

Käthe Kollwitz
The Survivors1923

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
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
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.