Aus vielen Wunden blutest du, O Volk (You Bleed from Many Wounds, Oh People)
Käthe Kollwitz
1896
Medium
etching and aquatint on buff wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 12.9 x 33.6 cm (5 1/16 x 13 1/4 in.) sheet: 30.8 x 45 cm (12 1/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg
Accession Number
2011.139.31
About the Artist
Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was a German artist whose powerful images of poverty, war, and maternal grief established her as the foremost practitioner of socially engaged art in early 20th-century Europe. Working primarily in printmaking—including etching, lithography, and woodcut—as well as drawing and sculpture, Kollwitz created works of raw emotional power that gave voice to the suffering of wor...