Bust of a Working Woman in a Blue Shawl (Brustbild einer Arbeiterfrau mit blauem Tuch)

Käthe Kollwitz

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Object Label

The influence of Käthe Kollwitz’s training as a painter can be sensed in the brushy texture of the early color lithograph Bust of a Working Woman in a Blue Shawl. The print also reflects her sympathy with the progressive labor movement, which sought better working and living conditions for impoverished Germans. Although she is perhaps best known for her woodcuts, the ease and directness of lithography appealed to her, as well. It was, as she noted, “a technique which hardly seems like one, it is so easy. It seized only the essential.”

Caption

Käthe Kollwitz German, 1867–1945. Bust of a Working Woman in a Blue Shawl (Brustbild einer Arbeiterfrau mit blauem Tuch), 1903. Color lithograph on wove paper, image: 13 7/8 × 9 5/8 in. (35.2 × 24.4 cm) sheet: 22 7/16 × 17 3/4 in. (57 × 45.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 39.14. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 39.14_view1_PS12.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

European Art

Title

Bust of a Working Woman in a Blue Shawl (Brustbild einer Arbeiterfrau mit blauem Tuch)

Date

1903

Geography

Place made: Germany

Medium

Color lithograph on wove paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

image: 13 7/8 × 9 5/8 in. (35.2 × 24.4 cm) sheet: 22 7/16 × 17 3/4 in. (57 × 45.1 cm)

Signatures

Signed, "Kathe Kollowitz" in pencil, lower right margin

Inscriptions

Lower right in graphite: "Käthe Kollwitz"; Lower edge near right corner: "Arbeiterfrau"

Credit Line

Museum Collection Fund

Accession Number

39.14

Rights

© artist or artist's estate

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