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Käthe Kollwitz
The Parents1921-22

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Woodcut print of a heavily robed, hunched figure with head buried in raised hands, rendered in dense black ink with white gouged lines

Käthe Kollwitz, The Parents, 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
Title
The Parents
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921-22
Medium
Woodcut on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 13 3/4 x 16 9/16 in. (34.93 x 42.07 cm) irregular
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.193c
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

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