Standing Female Nude
Käthe Kollwitz
1900
Medium
etching and aquatint [printed 1931]
Dimensions
plate: 18 x 13.7 cm (7 1/16 x 5 3/8 in.) sheet: 33.1 x 24.8 cm (13 1/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Grant and Virginia Green
Accession Number
1991.211.3
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...