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Käthe Kollwitz
Death grasps a woman1934

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Lithograph of a woman with open mouth looking upward, clutching a child to her chest, with large rounded forms looming above, rendered in soft charcoal-gray tones

Käthe Kollwitz, Death grasps a woman, 1934, 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
Death grasps a woman
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1934
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 20 1/16 x 14 3/8 in. (50.96 x 36.51 cm) irregular; Sheet: 24 13/16 x 19 5/16 in. (63.02 x 49.05 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.287.37
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.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn