Beim Dengeln (Sharpening the Scythe), study for the etching (Plate 3 from Bauernkrieg [Peasants' War])

ca. 1905

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Artist: Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945)
Title: Beim Dengeln (Sharpening the Scythe), study for the etching (Plate 3 from Bauernkrieg [Peasants' War])
Date: ca. 1905
Object Type: Drawing
Medium: charcoal and white chalk
Dimensions: Sheet: 522 x 375 mm (20 9/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Del Norte Winning
Accession Number: 1960.53

Monterey Peninsula Chapter, American Federation of Arts 3rd Annual Collector's Show, Feb 1964; Stanford University Museum of Art, Käthe Kollwitz, 19 Nov 1974 - 19 January 1975, no. 22; Fine Arts Galleries, St. Long Beach (CA), Käthe Kollwitz -- Jake Zetlin:The Early Years, 26 Nov - 19 Dec 1979, no. 14c, p. 46; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Recent Acquisitions Exhibition, 3 Dec 1960 - 8 Jan 1961; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, Feb 24 - June 3, 1979; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Käthe Kollwitz: Prints and Drawings, 5 Aug - 5 Nov 1989; New York, Museum of Modern Art, Käthe Kollwitz. A Retrospective, Mar 31 - Jul 20, 2024, no. 49.
Otto Nagel, and Werner Timm, eds., Käthe Kollwitz: Die Handzeichnungen (Catalogue Raisonne), 2nd. edn. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1980, no. 97; Starr Figura, with Maggie Hire, contr. by Kirsty Bell, Dorothy Price and Sarah Rapoport, Käthe Kollwitz. A Retrospective. MoMA, New York, 2023, p. 127, no. 49; Annette Seeler, 'Review of Käthe Kollwitz', Master Drawings 63, no. 3, Autumn 2025, pp. 375-76, fig. 1.

Currently on view