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Mother Müller

Mother Müller

Mother Müller

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1918

Medium: Woodcut printed through rubbing in black, partially inked in red and blue on the same block, on white wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 50.5 × 33.7 cm (19 15/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Sheet: 58.7 × 45.8 cm (23 1/8 × 18 1/16 in.)
Genre: Woodcut
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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