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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
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
  • Papanikolas, Theresa. Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009.