Käthe Kollwitz
Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners)

Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners)

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ArtistGerman, 1867–1945
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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Department
Prints and Drawings
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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Die Eltem (The Parents)
1921–1922
Woodcut on wove paper, version c/d, state V/V, edition 89/100
2023.453
Woman with Dead Child
Käthe Kollwitz
Woman with Dead Child
1903, published 1921
Hard- and soft-ground etching, drypoint, and emery with engraving on heavy cream wove paper, state IX/X, from an edition of unknown number
2023.454
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Weberzug (March of the Weavers)
c. 1897
Etching on wove paper
77.358
Uberfahren (The Runover)
Käthe Kollwitz
Uberfahren (The Runover)
c. 1910–1913
Soft ground and hard ground etching on wove paper
39.114
Die Eltern (The Parents), Number III
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Die Eltern (The Parents), Number III
1922–1923
Woodcut on Japanese paper, trial proof of second version of state III/VII
2003.983
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Käthe Kollwitz
Head of a Working Woman in Three-Quarter Profile Turned to the Right
1905
Lithograph on tan wove paper
2000.85
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c. 1550
Etching on laid paper
94.248
Image Not Available for The Visiting of the Prisoners
Crispijn van de Passe I
The Visiting of the Prisoners
c. 1590 - 1637
Engraving on laid paper, state I/II
86.362
A Group of Butternut Prisoners
Thomas Nast
A Group of Butternut Prisoners
1863
Wood engraving
89.414.2
A Group of Union Prisoners Escorted Through a Rebel Town
Thomas Nast
A Group of Union Prisoners Escorted Through a Rebel Town
1863
Wood engraving
89.417
A Group of Butternut Prisoners
Thomas Nast
A Group of Butternut Prisoners
1863
Wood engraving
89.414.1
Photographed in mylar sleeve
Thomas Nast
A Group Of Union Prisoners Escorted Through A Rebel Town
July 13, 1863
Wood engraving on newsprint
91.1429.141