Betendes Mädchen (Girl Praying)
1892 (published 1931)
Medium
etching with softground in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 18.57 × 14.13 cm (7 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.) plate: 19.69 × 15.24 cm (7 3/4 × 6 in.) sheet: 38.1 × 27.15 cm (15 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1253
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...