Girl with Cat
Hans Orlowski
1920
Medium
woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 24.9 x 19.5 cm (9 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.) sheet: 39.5 x 30.7 cm (15 9/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Elizabeth Gottschalk Krakauer
Accession Number
1987.75.4
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Hans Orlowski · 1894–1967
Hans Otto Orlowski (1894–1967) was a German woodcut artist and painter born in Insterburg, East Prussia, to a master tailor father. His family relocated during his childhood to Königsberg, Potsdam, and finally Charlottenburg near Berlin. Orlowski studied from 1911 to 1915 at the Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule in Charlottenburg under Harold Bengen, specializing in linocuts; his training was int...