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Simms (Dr. Richard A.) collection of prints and drawings by Käthe
Kollwitz and other artists
Title:
Dr. Richard A. Simms collection of prints and drawings by Käthe Kollwitz and other
artists
Dates:
1770s-2007,
undated
Number:
2016.PR.34
Creator/Collector:
Simms, Richard A.,
Dr.
Extent:
237.61 Linear Feet
(92 boxes, 6 flat file folders)
Abstract:
Assembled over a period of forty years,
the collection comprises approximately 560 works on paper by Käthe Kollwitz and other
predominantly German and other European artists from the late 19th and the early 20th
century, whose work exemplifies the artistic directions of the period, such as realism or
naturalism, impressionism, symbolism, and expressionism. Several of the artists represented
were like Käthe Kollwitz members of the modernist movement Berlin Secession, including Ernst
Barlach, Max Klinger, Lovis Corinth, Emil Nolde, or Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Most extensively
represented are Lovis Corinth, Otto Greiner, Max Klinger, Wilhelm Leibl, Ludwig Meidner, Max
Pechstein, Franz Skarbina, Max Slevogt, and Karl Stauffer-Bern. Present are works by Emma
Bormann, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Grammatté, George Grosz, Peter Halm, Karl Jakob Hirsch,
Arthur Kampf, Melchior Lechter, Wilhelm Leibl, Friedrich von Liphart, Hans Meid, Wilhelm
Morgner, Rolf Nesch, Emil Orlik, Bernhard Pankok, Jules Pascin, Ilya Repin, Christian
Rohlfs, Rudolf Schlichter, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Franz von Stuck, Hans Thoma, Henri
de Toulouse-Lautrec, Albert Welti, and Heinrich Zille. Also included are works by artists
from the late 18th and pre-modernist 19th century, including Daniel Chodowiecki,
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille, Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder, and Alfred Rethel.
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Language:
Collection material is in
German
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 Business Number: (310) 440-7390 Fax Number: (310) 440-7780 reference@getty.edu URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390
