The Weavers' March
Käthe Kollwitz
1897
Medium
etching and aquatint [printed 1931]
Dimensions
plate: 21.6 x 30 cm (8 1/2 x 11 13/16 in.) sheet: 37.9 x 54.2 cm (14 15/16 x 21 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Grant and Virginia Green
Accession Number
1991.211.2
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...