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Käthe Kollwitz
Commemorative print for Karl Liebknecht1919

Not on view
Lithograph on tan paper, four figures rendered in soft black crayon: three hunched figures lean over a fourth person lying flat, head tilted back with eyes closed

Käthe Kollwitz, Commemorative print for Karl Liebknecht, 1919, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Käthe Kollwitz
Title
Commemorative print for Karl Liebknecht
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919
Medium
Lithograph on heavy Papier Lipsia
Dimensions
Image (Image): 16 1/2 × 25 1/2 in. (41.91 × 64.77 cm) Sheet (Sheet): 21 5/8 × 30 3/4 in. (54.93 × 78.11 cm) Mat (LE Inventory): 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.287.38
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.

  • Barron, Stephanie et al., German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.

  • Klipstein, August. Käthe Kollwitz : Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes. Bern : Klipstein, 1955.
  • Benson, Timothy O. and Andrea Gyorody. A New Generation of Creators: Selections from The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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