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Käthe Kollwitz

Lot 217
Krieg, 1921
Woodcut

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Lot 217
Krieg, 1921
Woodcut
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
Auction: 20 days

Van Ham Kunstauktionen

City: Cologne
Auction: Jun 04, 2025
Auction number: A533
Auction name: Modern, Post War & Contemporary
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Lot Details
KOLLWITZ, KÄTHE
1867 Königsberg - 1945 Moritzburg

Title: Krieg.
Subtitle: Complete Portfolio of 7 Woodcuts.
Date: 1921/22.
Each: Woodcut on Japan. Different image dimensions. Sheet size 47,5 x 65,5cm and 65,5 x
47,5cm respectively. Each signed and numbered. Additionally numbered in the imprint.
Publisher: Emil Richter, Dresden (publisher).
Number: 6/100.
Frame/Pedestal: In original portfolio.


This portfolio is edition A on imperial Japanese paper. This edition of the war sequence was the only one to appear in a portfolio made of hammered paper with the woodcut 'Die Witwe I' on the front.

Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature:
- Knesebeck, Alexandra von dem: Käthe Kollwitz - Werkverzeichnis der Graphik, vol. 2, 1914-1942, Bern 2002, cat. rais. no. 173 (condition IV.b.), 174 and 175 (each V.b.), 176 und 178 (each VII.b.), 179 (IX.b.), 190 (VII.b.), ill. (here with deviating sheet dimensions).
Lot Details
KOLLWITZ, KÄTHE
1867 Königsberg - 1945 Moritzburg

Title: Krieg.
Subtitle: Complete Portfolio of 7 Woodcuts.
Date: 1921/22.
Each: Woodcut on Japan. Different image dimensions. Sheet size 47,5 x 65,5cm and 65,5 x
47,5cm respectively. Each signed and numbered. Additionally numbered in the imprint.
Publisher: Emil Richter, Dresden (publisher).
Number: 6/100.
Frame/Pedestal: In original portfolio.


This portfolio is edition A on imperial Japanese paper. This edition of the war sequence was the only one to appear in a portfolio made of hammered paper with the woodcut 'Die Witwe I' on the front.

Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature:
- Knesebeck, Alexandra von dem: Käthe Kollwitz - Werkverzeichnis der Graphik, vol. 2, 1914-1942, Bern 2002, cat. rais. no. 173 (condition IV.b.), 174 and 175 (each V.b.), 176 und 178 (each VII.b.), 179 (IX.b.), 190 (VII.b.), ill. (here with deviating sheet dimensions).
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