Childbirth. Lithograph by Conrad Felixmüller, 1922.

  • Felixmüller, Conrad, 1897-1977.
Date:
[1920]
Reference:
727758i
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About this work

Description

A midwife holds the baby up to the viewer, while the mother attempts to overcome pain by clenching the mattress with one hand and pushing against the bedhead with the other

Publication/Creation

[Germany] : [publisher not identified], [1920]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph ; image and border 27 x 32.5 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Impression in the Wellcome Library bears pencil inscription "Geburt. Felixmüller. Für Frau Jul Ruck mit herzlichstem danke u Grüssen von Ihrem Felixmüller Oktober 1922"

Edition

Edition of 80 impressions.

References note

Gerhart Söhn, Conrad Felixmüller: das graphische Werk 1912-1974, Düsseldorf 1987, no. 243
William Schupbach, 'Item of the month, 2 January 2011: A moment of pain and triumph', Wellcome Library blog, 28 January 2011, https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210314001539/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2011/01/a-moment-of-pain-and-triumph-item-of-the-month-january-2011/
Not in: Friedrich W. Heckmanns, Conrad Felixmüller: das druckgraphische Werk 1912 bis 1976 im Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Schenkung Titus Felixmüller und Luca Felixmüller, Düsseldorf : Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1986

Reference

Wellcome Collection 727758i

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