Käthe Kollwitz devoted drawing, etching, lithography, woodcut and sculpture to grief, poverty, labor and political violence. Two great print cycles, A Weavers’ Revolt and Peasants’ War, established her reputation; the deaths and upheavals of World War I deepened her focus on mourning and antiwar imagery.
Printmaking; drawing; sculpture
Major Works
- 1893–97The Weavers’ Revolt
- 1902–08Peasants’ War
- 1903Woman with Dead Child
- 1921–22The Volunteers
- 1921–22The Parents
- 1921–22The Mothers
- 1919–20Memorial to Karl Liebknecht
- 1937–39Mother with Her Dead Son
- 1937–38Tower of Mothers
- 1924Self-Portrait
Interviews & Writing
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