Stehende Mutter, Ihr Bublein Futternd (Standing Mother feeding her Little Boy) by Kathe Kollwitz

Stehende Mutter, Ihr Bublein Futternd (Standing Mother feeding her Little Boy) by Kathe Kollwitz

Stehende Mutter, Ihr Bublein Futternd (Standing Mother feeding her Little Boy)

Kathe Kollwitz

Title

Stehende Mutter, Ihr Bublein Futternd (Standing Mother feeding her Little Boy)

 
Artist

Kathe Kollwitz

  1867 - 1945 (biography)
Year
1931 (printed ca. 1950) 
Technique
etching 
Image Size
7 7/8 x 6" platemark 
Signature
unsigned 
Edition Size
unnumbered edition 
Annotations
publisher's Berlin-Halensee blindstamp in lower right 
Reference
Knesebeck 242; Klipstein 247 
Paper
ivory simili-japan wove 
State
Knesebeck IVa 
Publisher
A. von der Becke 
Inventory ID
17295 
Price
SOLD
Description
From Knesebeck catalogue: "Editions between 1946/48 and 1963/65, in brown or brown-violet, on various papers, among which lightly yellow or yellow-brown imitation Japan, later on thick, soft velin, some with von der Becke's stamp of artist's signature and/or with von der Becke's three-line Berlin-Halensee embossed seal. Also included in the portfolio A (format 400:300 mm) with 10 Kollwitz etching, A. von der Becke's, not dated [circa 1950]." Most of Kollwitz's etchings, from as early as 1891 until the 1960s, were printed at the Otto Felsing Printery, many of them by Schulz.