Head of a woman

Prints and Drawings

1902

Käthe Kollwitz
German, 1867-1945

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Artist: Käthe Kollwitz
Title: Head of a woman
Origin: Germany
Date: 1902
Medium: Black chalk with touches of white and pale tan chalk on brown wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right: "K Kollwitz 02"
Dimensions: 406 × 321 mm
Credit Line: Herman Waldeck Memorial Fund
Reference Number: 1960.362
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Stephen Longstreet, The Drawings of Kaethe Kollwitz (Alhambra, Calif., 1967), (ill.).

New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 142.
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23–May 14, 1972.

Gustav Englebrecht, Hamburg [Lugt 1148]. Sold by Allan Frumkin to the Art Institute, 1960.

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