Käthe KollwitzGerman, 1867–1945Study of a Man
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Where is “Study of a Man” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Washington, D.C., United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum
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- Accession number
- 1947.12.70
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- National Gallery of Art
- Image: National Gallery of Art — © the artist or rights holder
In the life of Käthe Kollwitz
The whole life1888–1889
Munich: lessons with Herterich and the realisation that she is a draughtsman
In Munich she studied painting with Ludwig Herterich and realised that her strength lay not in painting but in drawing.
1888–1889
Engagement to Karl Kollwitz
While studying art in Munich she became engaged to Karl Kollwitz, to whom her brother had introduced her.
1890
Her first etchings
Her first etchings date from 1890, the technique in which she would later make sheets of The Weavers and the whole Peasant War cycle.
1891
Marries the physician Karl Kollwitz
She married Karl Kollwitz, a doctor who tended the poor of Berlin; the couple moved into a large apartment that remained her home until it was destroyed in the Second World War. Her husband’s nearby practice supplied motifs from the lives of workers, which, in her own words, she found beautiful.
13 June 1891
Married: Karl Kollwitz
1892–1896
Hauptmann’s “The Weavers” inspires a new cycle
Between the births of her sons Hans and Peter she saw Gerhart Hauptmann’s play The Weavers, about the failed revolt of the Silesian weavers in Langenbielau in 1844. It inspired her to drop a series of etchings she had planned to illustrate Émile Zola’s Germinal and to produce a cycle on the weavers instead.
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