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