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Käthe Kollwitz
The Mothers1921-22

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Woodcut print with bold black ink on cream paper, a tightly packed crowd of figures with faces and hands emerging from dense black, and a child's face visible at lower right

Käthe Kollwitz, The Mothers, 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 Mothers
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921-22
Medium
Woodcut on Japan paper
Dimensions
Image: 13 3/8 x 15 3/4 in. (33.97 x 40.01 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.193f
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.

  • 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.
  • Benson, Timothy O. and Andrea Gyorody. A New Generation of Creators: Selections from The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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