Käthe Kollwitz - Arbeiterfrau im Profil nach links. Aus vielen Wunden blutest du, o Volk. 1903/1931, 1921

auction 68, Lot 1035

WORKS ON PAPER AND PAINTINGS 15-20 CENTURY AND MODERN, POST WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART 

on 24 September 2020

Käthe Kollwitz

Arbeiterfrau im Profil nach links. Aus vielen Wunden blutest du, o Volk. 1903/1931, 1921

estimate:
€ 1.000 to € 1.500

Differenzbesteuerung    

result:
€ 1.143 (incl. 27 % buyer's premium)

description:

Käthe Kollwitz

1867 Königsberg i. Pr. - 1945 Moritzburg Castle near Dresden

 

Worker woman in profile to the left. You bleed from many wounds, o people. 1903/1931, 1921

 

 

Two sheets. One sheet with a courtesy signature lower right, one (worker woman) unsigned with an embossed stamp von der Becke München 22. In the lower plate margin with engraved writing on the left "Orig. Rad. von Käthe Kollwitz", on the right "Druck v. Felsing, Berlin Chlttbg.". Etching with aquatint / chalk lithograph on vellum. Published by Emil Richter, Dresden / von der Becke, Munich. 13 x 33,5 cm. 31.5 x 45 cm. Discolouration to boards, tear. One framed.

 

Catalogue Raisonné: Von dem Knesebeck 32 III and 74 IIIb

 

Provenance: private owner, South Germany