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Käthe Kollwitz
Mother with child in her arms1916

Not on view
Charcoal drawing of an adult cradling a small child, faces nearly touching, rendered in loose smudged strokes on white paper, signed "Kollwitz"

Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with child in her arms, 1916, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Käthe Kollwitz
Title
Mother with child in her arms
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1916
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 13 1/8 x 7 7/16 in. (33.34 x 18.89 cm) irregular
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.1462.7
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.

  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • Klipstein, August. Käthe Kollwitz : Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes. Bern : Klipstein, 1955.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn