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Mourning Figure from the Series “Death”

Käthe Kollwitz

Mourning Figure from the Series “Death”

1933

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Käthe Kollwitz

Mourning Figure from the Series “Death”

1933

Physical Qualities Black chalk, Sheet: 635 x 486 mm. (25 x 19 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Purchase Fund
Object Number 1950.47
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1950; Ferdinand Roten, Baltimore
Gussgeschichte: The Sculptural Work of Kathe Kollwitz in plaster, stucco, bronze and zinc
BMA News, February 1956, p. 8.
Herbert Bittner, "Käthe Kollwitz Drawings" (New York and London; Thomas Yoseloff, 1959) p. 34, no. 142, repr.
Otto Nagel, ed., "Käthe Kollwitz: Handzeichnung" (Berlin: Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, 1980) no. 1262, repr.

Inscribed: Recto: at lower right in graphite: "Kathe Kollwitz / 1934"; in another hand, at lower right in graphite: "Zeichnung zur Folge Tod / gehörig" Verso: none

Markings: WM: Ingres d'Aches MBM (France)

Artist

Käthe Kollwitz

1866–1944

German, 1867-1945
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