Beim Dengeln (Whetting the Scythe), Käthe Kollwitz

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Käthe Kollwitz, Beim Dengeln (Whetting the Scythe)
Käthe Kollwitz, Beim Dengeln (Whetting the Scythe)
Käthe Kollwitz
Beim Dengeln (Whetting the Scythe)
1905
Käthe Kollwitz
1867–1945
Beim Dengeln (Whetting the Scythe), 1905
Portfolio/Series title: Bauernkrieg (Peasants' War)
Where object was made: Germany
Material/technique: soft-ground etching; engraving; wove paper; commercial tonal grids
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 295 x 290 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 410 x 363 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 116 1/8 x 114 3/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 161 7/16 x 142 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Source unknown
Accession number: 0000.2912
Not on display
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Teaching Gallery Label: “Changing the World: Images of Revolution,” Feb-2009, Kate Meyer The Peasants’ War was one of Kollwitz’s most important print series dealing with oppression. The title of the series, Bauernkrieg, makes an intentional reference to the historical uprising of the peasantry in Germany in 1525. Chinese artist Li Yitai included Kollwitz’s print “Black Anna” from The Peasants’ War series in his Portrait of Lu Xun exhibited here, giving testimony to Kollwitz’s influence for radical printmakers around the globe. Exhibition Label: "Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard With A Weavers Rebellion (also exhibited here), The Peasants’ War was one of Kollwitz’s most important print series dealing with oppression. Die Pflüger, which shows peasants who have harnessed themselves to their plow, was intended as the first print in the series. The title of the series, Bauernkrieg, makes an intentional reference to the historical uprising of the peasantry in Germany in 1525. Chinese artist Li Yitai included Kollwitz’s print “Black Anna” from The Peasants’ War series in his Portrait of Lu Xun exhibited here, giving testimony to Kollwitz’s importance to radical printmakers around the globe.