Picture "Woman With Hands Placed Over Each Other" (1898/99)
Picture "Woman With Hands Placed Over Each Other" (1898/99)
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Signed | etching on cardboard | framed | size 47 x 41 cm
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Picture "Woman With Hands Placed Over Each Other" (1898/99)
S, drypoint, aquatint, emery and dotted roulette on copperplate, 1898/99. Signed "Käthe Kollwitz", additionally signed by the printer Otto Felsing. Knesebeck 43 IV b (of VII b). Motif size 28 x 22 cm. Sheet size 36.5 x 28 cm. Size in frame 47 x 41 cm as shown.
About Käthe Kollwitz
The German graphic artist, painter and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz (1867, Königsberg – 1945, Moritzburg) is considered one of the most important women and artists of the 20th century. Käthe Kollwitz worked on themes that shaped her generation. This resulted in a large oeuvre of prints and drawings that dealt with both cheerful and negative subjects.
In 1898, she achieved a breakthrough with her etchings and lithographs at the great Berlin Art Exhibition. The artist made it her mission to draw attention to injustices and discrimination.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic techniques.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.