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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G8685
People
Käthe Kollwitz, German (Königsberg, East Prussia 1867 - 1945 Moritzburg, Germany)
Title
Death and the Mother
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: "Tod," 4
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1934
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/273170

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 65.2 x 49.9 cm (25 11/16 x 19 5/8 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
K. 259

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Copyright
© Estate of Käthe Kollwitz, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Object Number
G8685
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Mark Getlein, Gilbert's Living with Art, McGraw-Hill (New York, 2002), 194/8.18
  • Mark Getlein, Living with Art, McGraw-Hill (New York, 2010), p. 187, fig. 8.15

Exhibition History

  • German Art of the Latter 19th Century, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/08/1982 - 12/31/1982
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/08/2020

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