Betendes Mädchen (Girl Praying)
Käthe Kollwitz
1892 (published 1931)
Medium
etching with softground in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 19.7 x 14.8 cm (7 3/4 x 5 13/16 in.) sheet: 36 x 26.8 cm (14 3/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Grant and Virginia Green
Accession Number
1991.211.1
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...