Title:Two Studies of a Woman's Head
Artist:Käthe Kollwitz
Date:c. 1903
Creation Place:Europe, Germany
Credit Line:Gift of David M. Daniels
Image Copyright:©2001 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst
Accession Number:71.65
Artist:Käthe Kollwitz
Date:c. 1903
Creation Place:Europe, Germany
Credit Line:Gift of David M. Daniels
Image Copyright:©2001 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst
Accession Number:71.65
Kollwitz approached drawing as an aid for composing her editioned prints. In this black chalk study for a lithograph, she is experimenting with the angle of the mother's head as it rests on her dead child's chest.