Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945)

Child's Head (Kinderkopf)

Date:

(1925)

Medium:

Lithograph

Dimensions:

composition (irreg.): 5 5/16 x 4 1/8" (13.5 x 10.5 cm); sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 11/16" (26.4 x 19.5 cm)

Paper:

Cream, smooth, wove Japan.

Publisher:

Carl Reissner Verlag, Dresden

Printer:

probably Hermann Birkholz, Berlin

Edition:

proof outside the edition of 100 on Japan paper; plus an edition of 30 (10 numbered and signed on Japan paper and 20 signed and mostly numbered on copperplate engraving and on thick, wove paper) published by Alexander von der Becke, Berlin, as of 1931

Credit Line:

Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Copyright:

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

Reference:

Wagner 189. Klipstein 213 a. Knesebeck 218 a.

MoMA Number:

347.1940

Themes:

Postwar Politics

Techniques:

Lithography