Peasant Woman in a Blue Shawl
Käthe Kollwitz
1903
Medium
lithograph in blue and light brown on beige wove paper
Dimensions
image: 35.4 x 24.5 cm (13 15/16 x 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 46.3 x 32 cm (18 1/4 x 12 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald
Accession Number
1989.28.20
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...