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Der Polster (The Cushion)

Max Kurzweil · 1903

Max Kurzweil: Austrian, 1867 - 1916

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Der Polster (The Cushion)

1903

colour woodcut on thin Japanese tissue, attached to a dark brown support sheet · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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colour woodcut on thin Japanese tissue, attached to a dark brown support sheet
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plate: 28.5 × 25.9 cm (11 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 38.7 × 30.8 cm (15 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.)
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2012.92.342
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Max Kurzweil. Der Polster (The Cushion). Max Kurzweil; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Der Polster (The Cushion) — Max Kurzweil. 1903.

Medium: colour woodcut on thin Japanese tissue, attached to a dark brown support sheet.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 28.5 × 25.9 cm (11 1/4 × 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 38.7 × 30.8 cm (15 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.342. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.

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.

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Max Kurzweil. Der Polster (The Cushion). Max Kurzweil; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.