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Käthe Kollwitz
The Widow 11921-22

Not on view
Woodcut print of a figure from the waist up in near-total black, face bowed and obscured by two pale, skeletal hands pressed against cheek and chin

Käthe Kollwitz, The Widow 1, 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
Title
The Widow 1
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921-22
Medium
Woodcut on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 14 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (37.15 x 24.45 cm) irregular
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.193d
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.
  • Benson, Timothy O. Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2023.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn