Mother with her Dead Son

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Mother with her Dead Son is a poignant sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz that serves as the central war memorial in Berlin’s Neue Wache, commemorating victims of war and tyranny.

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Label Occurrences
Mother with her Dead Son canonical 2
The Grieving Parents 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf sculpture
artisticMedium sculpture in the round
associatedWithEvent commemoration ceremonies on 27 January (Holocaust Remembrance Day in Germany)
commemoration ceremonies on Volkstrauertag
basedOn personal grief of Käthe Kollwitz
commemorates victims of tyranny
victims of war
commissionedBy Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED
country Germany NERFINISHED
creator Käthe Kollwitz NERFINISHED
dateOfInstallation 1993
depicts dead son
mourning mother
exposedTo open oculus of Neue Wache
function central war memorial of Germany
genre memorial art
hasLanguageOfTitle German
hasStyle austere
reduced form
hasTheme anti-war sentiment
loss
mourning
remembrance
inBuilding Neue Wache central hall NERFINISHED
location Berlin NERFINISHED
Neue Wache NERFINISHED
materialUsed bronze
movement Expressionism
orientation center of the hall
partOf memorial site Neue Wache
placedOn stone pedestal
replaces eternal flame memorial previously in Neue Wache
subjectGender female (mother)
male (son)
subjectOf art historical studies
memorial culture debates in Germany
photographs
symbolizes cost of war
suffering of civilians in war
universal grief of mothers
titleInGerman Mutter mit ihrem toten Sohn NERFINISHED
Mutter mit totem Sohn NERFINISHED
usedAs national memorial to the victims of war and dictatorship NERFINISHED

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Neue Wache featuresWork Mother with her Dead Son
Käthe Kollwitz notableWork Mother with her Dead Son
Käthe Kollwitz notableWork Mother with her Dead Son
this entity surface form: The Grieving Parents