Art, literature & historyBegrüssung (The Greeting)
1892
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in black on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 11.75 × 8.73 cm (4 5/8 × 3 7/16 in.) sheet: 36.83 × 27.62 cm (14 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.1526
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Begrüssung (The Greeting) — Käthe Kollwitz. 1892.
Medium: etching in black on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 11.75 × 8.73 cm (4 5/8 × 3 7/16 in.) sheet: 36.83 × 27.62 cm (14 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.1526. Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow, 1968).
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.