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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1957.13
People
Käthe Kollwitz, German (Königsberg, East Prussia 1867 - 1945 Moritzburg, Germany)
Title
The Reader
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Der Lesende
Alternate Title: Bust of a Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1917
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297159

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on cream wove paper, darkened
Dimensions
35.9 x 30 cm (14 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Fernando Zóbel de Ayala
Copyright
© Estate of Käthe Kollwitz, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
1957.13
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Werner Timm, Käthe Kollwitz: Die Handzeichnungen, ed. Otto Nagel, Hanschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft (Berlin, Germany, 1972), no. 739, repr.

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