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Käthe Kollwitz and Otto Felsing

Sharpening the Scythe

1904

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Sharpening the Scythe

1904

Physical Qualities Etching and softground etching, Sheet: 552 x 469 mm. (21 3/4 x 18 7/16 in.) Plate: 299 x 291 mm. (11 3/4 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Board of Trustees Fund
Object Number 1954.203
date 1921 etched on plate - added later

Inscribed: In plate, in image, at lower right: "1921"; in plate, below image, at right: "Druck von O. Felsing, Berlin S.W."; lower right in graphite: "Kathe Kollwitz"; by later hand, bottom right in graphite: "54.203"; by later hand, bottom right in graphite: "55-"

Artist

Käthe Kollwitz

1866–1944

German, 1867-1945
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Printer

Otto Felsing

1853–1928

German, 1854 - 1920s
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