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Käthe Kollwitz

A Man’s Head from Two Views

1921

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Käthe Kollwitz

A Man’s Head from Two Views

1921

Physical Qualities Black chalk, Sheet: 517 x 663 mm. (20 3/8 x 26 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of William A. Dickey, Jr.
Object Number 1955.24
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; W.A.Dickey, Jr.; Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C.
BMA, "20th Century Northern European Drawings and Watercolors," 4 February - 3 April, 1977.

Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.

BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.

BMA, Cone Collection installation #6, February 1, 1988.

Jay Fisher, BMA, "German Expressionist Graphics 1905-1985," 9 August - 9 October, 1988.

BMA, "As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection," 14 May - 11 August, 1991.
BMA News, February 1956, frontispiece.
Herbert Bittner, "Käthe Kollwitz Drawings" (New York and London; Thomas Yoseloff, 1959) p. 28, no. 85, repr.
Otto Nagel, ed., "Käthe Kollwitz: Handzeichnung" (Berlin: Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, 1980) p. 370 no. 901 repr. p. 371
State of Maryland, "A Tribute to Poets Laureate of Maryland," April 2, 2000, illus.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 123, ill.

Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Kathe Kollwitz 1921"

Artist

Käthe Kollwitz

German, 1867-1945

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