Käthe Kollwitz acht originalradierungen.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945.

Contributor:

Von der Becke, A., printer.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945.

Kollwitz, Käthe.

Genre:

Etching (printing process)

Etching -- 19th century -- Germany.

Etching -- 20th century -- Germany.

Prints.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 prints in 1 portfolio : etchings mounted on cardboard ; plate marks 38 x 32 cm or smaller, portfolio 49 x 39 cm + 1 contents sheet

Place of Publication:

[Munich] : [A. von der Becke und Sohn], [1945?]

Contents:

Contents: (from formal list) Beratung = Conspiracy Kl. 25, 1895

Sturm = Riot Kl. 33, 1897

Frau mit übereinandergelegten Händen = Woman with Folded Hands Kl. 41, 1898

Aufruhr = Revolt Kl. 44, 1899

Gesenkter Frauenkopf = Bowed Woman's Head Kl. 77, 1905

Beim Dengeln = Sharpening the Scythe Kl. 90, 1905

Tod und Frau um das Kind ringend = Death and Mother Struggling over the Child Kl. 118, 1912

Trauernder Mann = Mourning Man Kl. 137v, 1919.

Notes:

Issued in portfolio.

Title from portfolio cover.

Place of publication and printer from blind stamp.

Possible date of publication from Klipstein.

Mostly vertical orientation.

From foot of contents sheet: "Die Radierungen sind mit der Hand von den verstählten Originalplatten abgezogen. Unsigned prints from the original plates."

Each print has the blind stamp of A. von der Becke und Sohn, which reads "AVD Becke Muenchen-22".

Local Notes:

Fine Arts Rare copy has two woodcut prints by Käthe Kollwitz not issued with the set laid in: Selbstbildnis von vorn (Klipstein 168), numbered "1" in lower left corner of leaf, and Die Eltern (Klipstein 179), numbered "2" in lower left corner of leaf.

Cited in:

Klipstein, A. The Graphic Work of Käthe Kollwitz

OCLC:

957032730