Scolding Woman | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1956.53
People: Käthe Kollwitz, German (Königsberg, East Prussia 1867 - 1945 Moritzburg, Germany)
Title: Scolding Woman
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Scheltende Frau; Frau mit Kind auf dem Arm
Alternate Title: Scolding Mother
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1909
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/297168

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on cream laid paper

Dimensions

actual: 40.8 x 32.5 cm (16 1/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., graphite: Käthe Kollwitz

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Ferdinand Roten, Baltimore, Maryland], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), 1947, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1956.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year: 1956
Object Number: 1956.53
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Herbert Bittner, Käthe Kollwitz: Drawings, Thomas Yoseloff (New York, NY and London, England, 1959), no. 14, repr. (dated c. 1900)
Werner Timm, Käthe Kollwitz: Die Handzeichnungen, ed. Otto Nagel, Hanschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft (Berlin, Germany, 1972), no. 480, repr.

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