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Käthe Kollwitz
Outbreak1903

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Etching of a woman in a long dark dress raising her arm to lead a crowd of men carrying rifles across an open landscape, rendered in energetic crosshatched lines

Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Richter Verlag, Otto Felsing Druckerei, Outbreak, 1903, 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
Printer
Otto Felsing Druckerei
Germany, Berlin, 1854-1920
Title
Outbreak
Place Made
Germany, Dresden
Date Made
1903
Medium
Etching and aquatint on yellowish copperplate paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 22 × 28 1/2 in. (55.88 × 72.39 cm) Plate: 19 15/16 × 23 3/8 in. (50.64 × 59.37 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.187
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.
  • Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
Selected Exhibition History
  • Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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