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Käthe Kollwitz
The Volunteers1921-22

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Woodcut print with bold black and white contrast, showing a crowd of figures with mouths open and arms raised, surging beneath a large curved arc

Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Richter Verlag, Fritz Voigt, The Volunteers, 1921-22, 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
Fritz Voigt
Berlin, Germany
Title
The Volunteers
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921-22
Medium
Woodcut on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 13 3/4 x 19 5/16 in. (34.93 x 49.05 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.193b
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • McGreevy, Linda F. Bitter Witness: Otto Dix and the Great War. New York: Peter Lang, Inc., 2001.
  • 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

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