Beim Denein (Sharpening the Scythe)

 

Kathe Kollwitz

  1867 - 1945 (biography)

1905 ( printed1946/48) 

etching, drypoint, sandpaper, aquatint, and softground 

11 3/4 x 11 3/4" platemark 

unsigned 

unnumbered edition 

annotated 1921 (from the first Richter edition) in lower right, in image; A. von der Becke's Berlin-Halensee blindstamp, lower right 

Knesebeck 88, Klipstein 90 

cream similie Japan wove 

Knesebeck XIVb 

A. von der Becke 

CHRA223 

SOLD

From Knesbek catlogue: "Editions between 1946/48 and 1963/65, in black 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 three-line Berlin-Halensee embossed seal. Also included in the portfolio B (format 500:400 mm) with 8 Kollwitz etchings, not dated [circa 1950]." Most of Kollwitz's etchings, from as early as 1891 until the 1960s, were printed at the Otto Felsing Pritnery, many of them by Schulz.