Die Pfluger (The Plowman) - Plate 1 from the Bauernkrieg series of 7, The Peasants' War by Kathe Kollwitz

Die Pfluger (The Plowman) - Plate 1 from the Bauernkrieg series of 7, The Peasants War by Kathe Kollwitz

Die Pfluger (The Plowman) - Plate 1 from the Bauernkrieg series of 7, The Peasants' War

Kathe Kollwitz

Title

Die Pfluger (The Plowman) - Plate 1 from the Bauernkrieg series of 7, The Peasants' War

 
Artist

Kathe Kollwitz

  1867 - 1945 (biography)
Year
1906  
Technique
etching, aquatint, drypoint, reservage, sandpaper, needle bundle and softground 
Image Size
12 3/8 x 17 7/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
unnumbered edition 
Annotations
none 
Reference
Knesebeck 99; Klipstein 94 
Paper
antique-white Japan wove 
State
Knesebeck VIIIa/XII; Klipstein vi/ix 
Publisher
Felsing 
Inventory ID
ANFO112 
Price
SOLD
Description
From Knesebeck catalogue: "With this work: the aquatint is now even more uniform. Proofs in brown, before the 1908 edition. Signed, on Japan, without Felsing's signature; signed or unsigned, on copperplate paper, with Felsing's signature; or proofs signed differently than the edition, on copperplate paper, without Felsing's signature." This image is plate 1 from Kollwitz's powerful Peasants' War series of 1906. This impression, state 6 of 9, was printed by Otto Felsing. 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.