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Käthe Kollwitz

Königsberg (today Kaliningrad) 1867 – 1945 Moritzburg

„Märzfriedhof“. 1913

Charcoal and blue coloured pencil on Ingres laid paper. 31 × 25 cm (63,1 × 47,5 cm) (12 ¼ × 9 ⅞ in. (24 ⅞ × 18 ¾ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Käthe Kollwitz. „Märzfriedhof“. 1913.

Estimate:

EUR 30,000

 

- 40,000

USD 34,100

 

- 45,500

Sold for:

56,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions October 2018

Bernd Schultz Collection III, Friday, 26.10.2018

Information

Charcoal and blue coloured pencil on Ingres laid paper. 31 × 25 cm (63,1 × 47,5 cm) (12 ¼ × 9 ⅞ in. (24 ⅞ × 18 ¾ in.)). Signed in pencil lower right: Käthe Kollwitz. Catalogue raisonné: Nail/Timm 713. On the reverse: sketch of the same motif. Charcoal. Study for the 1913 lithograph of the same name (von dem Knesebeck 127) as well as detailed studies for the second and third version (von dem Knesebeck 128 and 129).

Salman Schocken, Jerusalem (until 1967) / Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin (1967) / Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (until 1998) / Private Collection, Southern Germany

Käthe Kollwitz zum 100. Geburtstag. Graphik, Handzeichnungen, Plastik. Berlin, Galerie Pels-Leusden, 1967, cat. no. 114

Auction 152: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 5 June 1967, cat. no. 776 / auction 63: Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 5 June 1998, cat. no. 57

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