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Käthe Kollwitz
Sharpening the Scythe1905

Not on view
Mezzotint or etching of an elderly figure hunched over a violin, rendered in deep blacks and pale highlights against a dark background
Artist or Maker
Käthe Kollwitz
Germany, 1867-1945
Title
Sharpening the Scythe
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1905
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (29.85 x 29.85 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Acquisition Fund, and the Twentieth Century Art Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
AC1992.237.21
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • 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.

  • Klipstein, August. Käthe Kollwitz : Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes. Bern : Klipstein, 1955.