THE COLLECTION
Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945)
The Volunteers (Die Freiwilligen) (plate 2) from War (Krieg)
- Date:
- (1921-22, published 1923)
- Medium:
- Woodcut from a portfolio of seven woodcuts and one woodcut cover
- Dimensions:
- composition: 13 3/4 x 19 1/2" (34.9 x 49.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 18 11/16 x 25 3/4" (47.5 x 65.4 cm)
- Paper:
- Cream, smooth, laid Japan.
- Publisher:
- Emil Richter, Dresden
- Printer:
- probably Fritz Voigt, Berlin
- Edition:
- 400 (including 100 hand-printed, numbered and signed on imperial Japan paper [this ex,]; 100 hand-printed, numbered and signed on wove paper; 200 printed from an electrotype plate on imitation japan paper, published in 1924); plus 10 known state proofs (states I-V) and 2 known proofs before the edition
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Arnhold Family in memory of Sigrid Edwards
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Reference:
- Wagner 158. Klipstein 178. Knesebeck 173 IV b. Rifkind 1606.2.
- MoMA Number:
- 470.1992.2
- Themes:
- Death, Postwar Politics, War
- Techniques:
- Woodcut