Working-Class Woman with Sleeping Child (Arbeiter Frau mit Schlafendem Jungen)
Käthe Kollwitz
1927
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 61.6 × 46.04 cm (24 1/4 × 18 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5263
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...