Totenklage — Wilhelm Oesterle

Wilhelm Oesterle

Totenklage

1900-1928

Dating
Date range
Held at
National Gallery of Art
Medium
woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 29.8 × 44.5 cm (11 3/4 × 17 1/2 in.) sheet: 35 × 51.6 cm (13 3/4 × 20 5/16 in.)
Collection no.
2012.92.427
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Wilhelm Oesterle. Totenklage. Wilhelm Oesterle; 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

About this artwork

Totenklage — Wilhelm Oesterle. 1900-1928.

Medium: woodcut on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 29.8 × 44.5 cm (11 3/4 × 17 1/2 in.) sheet: 35 × 51.6 cm (13 3/4 × 20 5/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.427. 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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