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Käthe Kollwitz
Hunger1925, published 1926

Not on view
Woodcut print with stark white-on-black contrast, skeletal figure with whip looming above a dense crowd of crouching human figures with open mouths and tangled hair

Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Richter Verlag, Hunger, 1925, published 1926, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Käthe Kollwitz
Germany, 1867-1945
Publisher
Emil Richter Verlag
Germany, Dresden 1890-1930
Title
Hunger
Place Made
Germany, Dresden
Date Made
1925, published 1926
Medium
Woodcut on heavy Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 22 7/8 x 16 7/8 in. (58.1 x 42.86 cm); Sheet: 27 11/16 x 20 9/16 in. (70.33 x 52.23 cm); Framed: 31 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (80.01 x 64.77 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.185
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.

  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
  • Klipstein, August. Käthe Kollwitz : Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes. Bern : Klipstein, 1955.
  • Papanikolas, Theresa. Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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