Das Volk (The People), plate 7 from the portfolio Sieben Holzschnitte zum Krieg (Seven Woodcuts about the War)
Käthe Kollwitz, Das Volk (The People), plate 7 from the portfolio Sieben Holzschnitte zum Krieg (Seven Woodcuts about the War), 1922; published 1923, woodcut on cream wove paper, Gift of Harold and Judith Hummelt, © artist or other rights holder, 81.117
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- Title
Das Volk (The People), plate 7 from the portfolio Sieben Holzschnitte zum Krieg (Seven Woodcuts about the War)
- Related Titles
original language: Das Volk
portfolio (original language): Sieben Holzschnitte zum Krieg
portfolio (translated): Seven Woodcuts about the War
translated: The People
- Artist
- Date
1922; published 1923
- Medium
woodcut on cream wove paper
- Edition
89/100
- Catalogue Raisonné
Knesebeck 190 VII c
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 14 1/8 in x 11 3/4 in; sheet: 25 1/2 in x 19 1/2 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
inscription: VII Das Volk, graphite, bottom left
inscription: K855, blue pencil, bottom left
inscription: s, graphite, lower left
edition: 89/100, graphite, lower left
signature: Kathe Kollwitz, graphite, lower right
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
German
- Credit Line
Gift of Harold and Judith Hummelt
- Accession Number
81.117
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
In a letter from the time, Käthe Kollwitz wrote, "I have repeatedly attempted to give form to the war. I could never grasp it. Now I have finished a series of woodcuts, which in some measure, say what I wanted to say. . . . These sheets should travel throughout the entire world and should tell all human beings comprehensively: that is how it was."
- Exhibitions
1991 Inner Visions: German Prints from the Age of Expressionism Portland Art Museum; The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum; Duke University Museum of Art; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Tacoma Art Museum
2014 This is War! Graphic Arts from the Great War Portland Art Museum
