An der Kirchenmauer (By the Church Wall), by Kathe Kollwitz, (German, (1878-1945) Wood Engraving 14-7/8 x 13-5/16

14-7/8 x 13-5/16

signed in the plate bottom center below the ruled border

Her mature work in many media is distinguished by  playful inventions of organic form and explorations of bilateral symmetry

on warm white wove paper

a particularly bright

An der Kirchenmauer (By the Church Wall), by Kathe Kollwitz, (German, (1878-1945) Wood Engraving 14-7/8 x 13-5/16Etching with Drypoint, 1893, posthumous ed. unknown, printed circa 1963 72, Kl. 19 Vlb, unsigned, with the A. V. D. Becke Munchen 22 dry stamp lower right, final state, plate 9 15 16 x 5 3 16, image 9 3 8 x 4 7 16, pale hint of lightening within mat opening, printed in a warm black ink on thick cream wove paper. A fine late impression with rich contrasts of this early image by Kollwitz. Otto Nagel, the author of a book on Kollwitz's self portraits,