Sitzender männlicher Akt (Seated Male Nude)

 

Kathe Kollwitz

  1867 - 1945 (biography)

1891 (printed between 1963 and 72) 

etching in brown black ink 

6 5/16 x 5 1/16" platemark 

unsigned 

unnumbered edition 

publisher's "A.V.D.Becke/Munchen-22" blindstamp in lower right 

Knesebeck 4; Klipstein 4 

heavy cream wove velin 

Knesebeck IIf, printed between 1963 and 1972 

A. von der Becke, Johanna and Bernhard von der Becke. 

19141 

$250.00 

This is a posthumous impression of this early etching (Kollwitz's fourth etching). There is much confusion about her prints so here is the entry from the Kneseback catalogue raisonne, listing each state and printing. This impression is from the final printing (f).: State II. The body is thoroughly modeled. The contours of the thigh no longer touch below his genitalia. The background is completed, reworked and strengthened.
b. Proofs frequently annotated by the artist as before steelfacing (“unverstählt”). In brown, on copperplate paper, mostly signed “Käthe Kollwitz” in lower right, some signed by Felsing.
c. 50 numbered proofs, signed “Käthe Kollwitz” in lower right, some proofs still annotated as before steelfacing (“unverstählt”), in brown, on copperplate paper, some signed by Felsing. Richter edition, 1918. Editions by von der Becke.
d. Editions between 1931 and 1941, in brown, on copperplate paper, some signed.
e. 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 the
artist’s signature and/or with von der Becke’s three-line Berlin-Halensee
embossed seal.”
f. Editions between 1963/65 and 1972, in brown or brown-violet, on thick, soft velin, with von der Becke’s Munich embossed seal.
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