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Gallerist Alexander von der Becke took over control of Kathe Kollwitz’s prints after her longtime representative Galerie Emil Richter was bankrupted.

Von der Becker would create many prints of Kollwitz’s plates from 1931-1941 and then again after the war in 1945. This is a posthumous printing of Kathe Kollwitz’s 1895 etching "Council", with von der Becke’s blindstamp lower right