Death and Woman Struggle for the Child (Tod und Frau um das Kind Ringend)
Käthe Kollwitz
1911
Medium
etching and aquatint
Dimensions
image: 22.2 × 28 cm (8 3/4 × 11 in.) sheet: 31.5 × 45 cm (12 3/8 × 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5262
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...