Volunteers | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: G8684
People: Käthe Kollwitz, German (Königsberg, East Prussia 1867 - 1945 Moritzburg, Germany)
Title: Volunteers
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: "Krieg, " II
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1922-1923
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/273096

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Block print in black ink on off-white wove paper

Technique

Woodcut

Dimensions

image: 35 x 49.3 cm (13 3/4 x 19 7/16 in.)
sheet: 49.5 x 65 cm (19 1/2 x 25 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., in graphite: Käthe Kollwitz
inscription: l.l., in graphite: die frei [illegible ] auf foege "Krieg"

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: iv c
Standard Reference Number: K. 178

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number: G8684
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions: The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

David N. Perkins, The Intelligent Eye: Learning to Think by Looking at Art, Getty Center for Education in the Arts (Santa Monica, CA, 1994), p. 21, fig. 5

Exhibition History

32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2022 - 01/01/2023

Verification Level

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G8684: Volunteers