Käthe Kollwitz

* 1867 in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, RU); † 1945 in Moritzburg, DE

11. Berlin Biennale

Sturm [Storming the Gate—Attack] (Sheet 5 of the cycle Ein Weberaufstand [A Weavers’ Revolt]), 1893–97
Line etching and sandpaper
Collection Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, Cologne

Weberzug [March of the Weavers] (Sheet 4 of the cycle Ein Weberaufstand [A Weavers’ Revolt]), 1893–97
Line etching and sandpaper
Collection Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, Cologne

Study for Aufruhr [Uprising] (reversed sketch for the eponymous etching), ca. 1899
Watercolor and opaque paint, ink, pen on brown paper
Collection Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Aufruhr [Uprising], 1899
Etching
Collection Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Die Carmagnole [The Carmagnole] (test print, state I), 1901
Etching, sandpaper
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Die Carmagnole [The Carmagnole], 1901
Etching with aquatint
Collection Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Losbruch [Charge] (Sheet 5 of the cycle Bauernkrieg [Peasants’ War], state IX), 1903
Etching, fabric imprint, aquatint
Collection Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Bewaffnung in einem Gewölbe [Arming in a Vault] (Sheet 4 of the cycle Bauernkrieg [Peasants’ War], 2nd edition, final version), 1906
Bicolor etching with line etching, drypoint, aqua-tint and soft ground with imprint of Ziegler’s transfer paper
Collection Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, Cologne

Die Gefangenen [The Prisoners] (Sheet 5 of the cycle Bauernkrieg [Peasants’ War], 1st edition), 1908
Etching
Collection Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Die Mütter [The Mothers] (Sheet 6 of the cycle Krieg [War]), 1922/23
Xylograph
Collection Akademie der Künste, Berlin