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Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners) Preparatory Sketch Reproduction

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Print reproduction of preparatory sketch for Plate 7 "The Prisoners" from Kollwitz's series Bauernkrieg (the Peasants War)

2026.09.348

Lithograph

2026.09

Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

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Kathe Kollwitz

Artist

Emil Richter

circa 1908

20th Century

Germany

Signature

print front, bottom right

K. Kollwitz

PrintedIn Artist's Hand

Stamp

print back, center

[ERV]

Stamped

Stamp on back is Emil Richter's collector stamp. He was the exclusive publisher of Kollwitz in the 1910s and 1920s. Work from the so called Richter Portfolio which had 25 works chosen by Kollwitz, this work was plate 2 in the series.

TitleSignatureNumber

print back, bottom

18. Kollwitz, Die Gefangenen, Studie von Bauernkrieg

German

18. Kollwitz, The Prisoners, Study from Peasants War

WrittenPencil

15-1/2 in

19-1/2 in

https://nmwa.org/art/artists/kathe-kollwitz/

Professor Edward Akeley (1894-1984) and Mrs. Anna Akeley (1904-2004), West Lafayette, Indiana; donated to Purdue University Archives; transferred to Purdue University Galleries

Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners) Preparatory Sketch Reproduction picture number 1