Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind)
1903
Medium
etching and soft ground etching with graphite, black chalk, and metallic paints on wove paper [trial proof]
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to and within plate mark): 41.7 x 47.2 cm (16 7/16 x 18 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Philip and Lynn Straus, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1988.67.1
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...