Man and Woman

Prints and Drawings

c. 1919

Käthe Kollwitz
German, 1867-1945

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Käthe Kollwitz
Title: Man and Woman
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1914–1924
Medium: Charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in charcoal: "Kollwitz"; inscribed, lower left, in graphite: "EC"
Dimensions: 48.3 × 33.5 cm (19 1/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.705
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Herbert Bittner, Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings (New York, 1959), p. 33, no. 132 (ill.).
Otto Nagel, Käthe Kollwitz, Die Handzeichnungen (Berlin, 1972), p. 348, no. 803 (ill.).

Waltham, Mass., Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, “50 Drawings by 50 Modern Masters,” February 22–April 5, 1970.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 25 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 183, cat. 134 (ill.).

Erich Cohn (1898–1972), New York, by 1959 [Bittner 1959]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, c. 1962; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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