KOLLWITZ, KÄTHE
1867 Königsberg - 1945 Moritzburg
Title: Krieg.
Subtitle: Complete Portfolio of 7 Woodcuts.
Date: 1921/22.
Each: Woodcut on Japan. Different image dimensions. Sheet size 47,5 x 65,5cm and 65,5 x
47,5cm respectively. Each signed and numbered. Additionally numbered in the imprint.
Publisher: Emil Richter, Dresden (publisher).
Number: 6/100.
Frame/Pedestal: In original portfolio.
This portfolio is edition A on imperial Japanese paper. This edition of the war sequence was the only one to appear in a portfolio made of hammered paper with the woodcut 'Die Witwe I' on the front.
Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature:
- Knesebeck, Alexandra von dem: Käthe Kollwitz - Werkverzeichnis der Graphik, vol. 2, 1914-1942, Bern 2002, cat. rais. no. 173 (condition IV.b.), 174 and 175 (each V.b.), 176 und 178 (each VII.b.), 179 (IX.b.), 190 (VII.b.), ill. (here with deviating sheet dimensions).