Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945)

Worker Woman with Sleeping Child (Arbeiterfrau mit schlafendem Jungen)

Date:

(1927)

Medium:

Lithograph

Dimensions:

composition (irreg.): 15 3/8 x 13 1/8" (39.1 x 33.4 cm); sheet: 21 5/8 x 15 3/4" (55 x 40 cm)

Paper:

Cream, smooth, wove.

Publisher:

Künstler-Selbsthilfe, J. J. Ottens, Berlin

Printer:

probably Hermann Birkholz, Berlin

Edition:

100 (30 numbered on Japan paper and 70 numbered on wove paper); plus unnumbered proofs on Japan paper and wove paper [this ex.]; plus 50 (with lithographed signature) published by Alexander von der Becke, Berlin, c. 1931

Credit Line:

Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Copyright:

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Reference:

Wagner 196. Klipstein 226 b. Knesebeck 234 I c.

MoMA Number:

345.1940

Themes:

Postwar Politics

Techniques:

Lithography