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Käthe Kollwitz
The prisoners1908

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Etching or lithograph of a dense crowd of figures in loose clothing pressing against a horizontal rope, rendered in high-contrast black ink with expressive, gestural lines

Käthe Kollwitz, The prisoners, 1908, 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
Title
The prisoners
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1908
Medium
Aquatint and etching on copperplate paper
Dimensions
Plate: 12 7/8 x 16 5/8 in. (32.7 x 42.23 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.342
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Klipstein, August. Käthe Kollwitz : Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes. Bern : Klipstein, 1955.

  • 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.

Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn