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between 1902 and 1903

Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz , Artist Otto Felsing , Publisher

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Title Charge

Artwork Date between 1902 and 1903

Makers Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (Artist) German, 1867-1945 Otto Felsing (Publisher) German

Medium Etching, softground etching and lift-ground aquatint printed in black ink on cream wove paper

Dimensions Plate: 20 1/8 × 23 3/8 inches (51.1 × 59.4 cm) Sheet: 21 1/2 × 27 3/4 inches (54.6 × 70.5 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 30.78

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, in plate, lower right: K Kollwitz 1902 Signed, in pencil, within platemark, lower right: Kathe Kollwitz

Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower right: DRUCK VON O. FELSING BERLIN Inscribed, in plate, lower right corner of image: 1921 Inscribed, in pencil, bottom right edge: Kollwitz, Kathe "Incidents in the Peasants War" 1903

Provenance

(Ernst Arnold Galerie, Dresden, Germany);
1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Uhr, H. Masterpieces of German Expressionism in the Detroit Institiute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 136 (ill.).

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, cat. no. 93, (ill.).

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Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, Charge, between 1902 and 1903, etching, softground etching and lift-ground aquatint printed in black ink on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.78.