Mutter mit Kindauf auf dem Arm (Mother with Child on Her Arm)
Käthe Kollwitz
1910 (published 1931)
Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 19.05 × 12.7 cm (7 1/2 × 5 in.) sheet: 38.26 × 26.99 cm (15 1/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1252
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...