Cats I (Katzen I)

1914

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Associated Names
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Artist, German, 1884 - 1976

This print features dark, sweeping curves and angular lines forming the shapes of two black cats. Both cats are sitting, facing the right, with the cat on the left bending its head down to lick its chest. Additional curved shapes surround the cats, evoking foliage.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.7632

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schapire 1924, Vol. W, no. 148

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Buchholz Gallery, New York); purchased 1941 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown; gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Prints 1800-1945, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1966, no. 193.

Bibliography

1924

  • Schapire, Rosa. Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs graphische Werk bis 1923. Berlin: Euphorion-Verlag, 1924.

Wikidata ID

Q65022728

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