Gesenkter Frauenkopf (Bowed Woman's Head)
Käthe Kollwitz, German, 1867 - 1945
1905; published after 1945
Drypoint on wove paper
Impression: 14 3/8 × 11 7/8 in. (36.5 × 30.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.964.70.1
Publisher
A. von der Becke, Berlin, Germany
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Embossed, lower right: A.V.D. BECKE / MUENCHEN 22
Course History
SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014
GERM 3.01, Introdoctory German (cont.), Heidi Denzel, Fall 2022
Provenance
Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; sold to present collection, 1963.
Catalogue Raisonne
A. Klipstein, Kaethe Kollwitz: Verzeichnis des Graphischen Werkes, Bern, 1955, no. 77.
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