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The Volunteers

Käthe Kollwitz and Emil Richter

The Volunteers

1921-1922, published 1923

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The Volunteers

1921-1922, published 1923

Physical Qualities Woodcut, Sheet: 461 x 679 mm. (18 1/8 x 26 3/4 in.) Plate: 348 x 494 mm. (13 11/16 x 19 7/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the portfolio "War (Krieg)"
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1933.8.1
Bought from exhibition held at BMA in December, 1932.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite:"73/100"; lower right in graphite: "Kathe Kollwitz"; by later hand bottom center in graphite: "Die Freiwilligen aus der Folge 'Krieg"

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