NLM Digital Collections

[Besuch in Krankenhaus]

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Author(s):
Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945, artist
Publication:
1929
Language(s):
German
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Patients
Death
Abstract:
A woman and a child are sitting at the hospital bedside of her sick husband. The starkness of the image suggests that death is immiment.
Copyright:
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Extent:
1 print : 31 x 41 cm
Provenance:
Ferdinand Roten Galleries, Baltimore, Maryland. Purchase; 1970.
Technique:
woodcut
NLM Unique ID:
101447881 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A027618
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101447881