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Käthe Kollwitz
Fear1914

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Print in dotted and hatched tones showing a close-cropped figure with closed eyes and a dark draped hood, hands cupped upward near the lower center

Käthe Kollwitz, Fear, 1914, 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
Fear
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1914
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 13 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (33.6 x 24.1 cm) irreg.
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
83.1.1409d
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

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