"Tod und Frau" / "Death and Woman" /self-portrait (Klipstein 103, Knesebeck 107 VIIIb). Original Line etching, drypoint, sandpaper, soft ground, originally published in 1910 with an edition of 50. The plate was damaged in the war, was reworked, the script at left "Orig. Rad. von Käte Kollwitz" and right "Druck v. O. Felsing, Berlin-Chlttbg." is still legible. Probably from a von der Becke edition between 1963/65 and 1972, in sepia, with von der Becke's Munich embossed seal lower right. This was the final printing of this plate, which is preserved in Berlin. 

Print is in a matte wood frame and matted in black. Fine condition. 

Käthe Kollwitz's "Tod und Frau" (Death and Woman) print with the Becke Muenchen-22 blind stamp sold at Christie's auction in 2016 for $2,750.

Art dealer Alexander von der Becke founded his publishing imprint in 1931 when he took over the inventory of Käthe Kollwitz's unsold prints, as well as her printing plates after the bankruptcy of Galerie Emil Richter, Dresden, which had published Kollwitz's prints from about 1910 to 1930.  Under the Nazi regime, he suffered from declining sales, as Kollwitz experienced increasing difficulty publishing and exhibiting her work. In 1941, the Gestapo closed his business and confiscated his stock. Reestablished in 1946, and subsequently issued posthumous reprints of the thirty Kollwitz etching plates that survived the war (some in need of repair). After his death in November 1958, his wife Johanna and son Bernhard continued the business and opened a branch in Munich in 1963, publishing posthumous Kollwitz reprints until 1972.