The Weavers

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The Weavers is a powerful series of prints and a play-inspired artwork by Käthe Kollwitz depicting the suffering and uprising of 19th-century Silesian textile workers, and is considered one of her most important social-realist works.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art series
graphic cycle
social realist artwork
artForm printmaking
artist Käthe Kollwitz NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Germany
creator Käthe Kollwitz NERFINISHED
depicts 19th-century Silesian textile workers
Silesian weavers
class struggle
poverty
suffering
workers’ uprising
describedAs major social-realist cycle
one of Käthe Kollwitz’s most important works
genre political art
social commentary art
hasPart Conspiracy
Death NERFINISHED
March of the Weavers NERFINISHED
Poverty NERFINISHED
Storming the Gate NERFINISHED
The End NERFINISHED
inspiredBy Die Weber NERFINISHED
The Weavers (play) NERFINISHED
play by Gerhart Hauptmann
languageOfTitle German
locationDepicted Silesia NERFINISHED
mainSubject industrial exploitation
labor movement
workers’ rights
movement Social realism NERFINISHED
notableWorkOf Käthe Kollwitz NERFINISHED
originalTitle Die Weber NERFINISHED
technique etching
lithography
woodcut
theme collective action
human dignity
oppression
revolution
social injustice
timePeriodDepicted 1844 Silesian weavers’ uprising

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Käthe Kollwitz notableWork The Weavers