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- Museum number
- 2018,7046.2
- Title
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Object: Beratung (Conspiracy)
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Series: Ein Weberaufstand (A weavers' revolt)
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Series: Ein Weberaufstand (A weavers' revolt)
- Description
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Interior with four seated figures huddled together at a table; light falls from a lamp on the ceiling onto the table and two of the men's faces. Ist state. 1893-97
Crayon lithograph, with scraper and scraping needle on grey chine collé
- Production date
- 1893-1897
- Dimensions
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Height: 274 millimetres
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Width: 168 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the final version of the third plate from the series 'A Weavers' Revolt', 1893-97. The series is related to Gerhart Hauptmann's controversial play 'Die Weber', published in 1892, which recounts the uprising of impoverished Silesian weavers in 1844. Kollwitz's attendance at the first performance of 'Die Weber' in February 1893 inspired her to create the series, which parallels but does not directly illustrate the play. Two earlier versions of 'Conspiracy' in etching and lithograph (Knesebeck 28 and 29) were discarded by Kollwitz in favour of this final composition. For additional literature, see Elizabeth Prelinger, 'Käthe Kollwitz', Washington National Gallery of Art exh cat, 1992, pp. 21-25; F. Carey and M. Egremont, 'Portrait of the Artist: Käthe Kollwitz' (Birmingham, Ikon, 2017) pp. 64-65
For a discussion of the series see 1951,0501.74
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2019-20, 2 September-12 January, London, BM, G90, Portrait of the Artist: Käthe Kollwitz
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Die Weber
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2018,7046.2
