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Käthe Kollwitz
Death holds a girl in his lap1934

Not on view
Charcoal drawing of a seated figure in profile, head tilted back, arms folded across the torso, rendered in bold gestural strokes on white paper
Artist or Maker
Käthe Kollwitz
Title
Death holds a girl in his lap
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1934
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 16 7/8 x 14 15/16 in. (42.86 x 37.94 cm) irregular; Sheet: 24 5/16 x 19 1/16 in. (61.75 x 48.42 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.287.36
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