Begrüssung (The Greeting)
Käthe Kollwitz
1892
Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 11.75 × 8.73 cm (4 5/8 × 3 7/16 in.) sheet: 36.83 × 27.62 cm (14 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1526
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...