Käthe Kollwitz
Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners)

CultureGerman
Titles
  • Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners)
Date1908, published 1921
PlaceGermany
MediumEtching on wove paper
DimensionsPlate: 12 3/8 × 16 1/2 in. (31.4 × 41.9 cm)
Sheet: 18 1/2 × 22 5/16 in. (47 × 56.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation
Object number36.1
Not on view

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Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"German Expressionist," Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, mid February - mid April, 1977. (LN:77.2)
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom right below image in pencil "Kathe Kollwitz"
printed bottom right[partially on the plate] "1921 / Originalradienung Käthe Kollwitz"
Catalogue raisonnéKlipstein 98 Knesebeck 102

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