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Maker(s):Kollwitz, Käthe
Culture:German (1867 - 1945)
Title:Das Opfer (The Sacrifice), Plate I from the series Krieg (War)
Date Made:1921-1922
Type:Print
Materials:woodcut printed in black with white gouache on paper
Place Made:Germany
Measurements:sheet: 18 1/8 x 18 7/8 in.; 46.0375 x 47.9425 cm; block: 14 5/8 x 15 7/8 in.; 37.1475 x 40.3225 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed in pencil at lower right: Käthe Kollwitz
Accession Number:  SC 1933.10.1
Credit Line:Purchased with the Drayton Hillyer Fund
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
1933_10_1.jpg

Description:
central half-length nude woman holding up an infant in attitude of offering/sacrifice, both surrounded by a halo-like form

Label Text:
This is a trial proof, state IV, completely worked over and corrected with Chinese white.

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