Woman with Dead Child

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"Woman with Dead Child" is a powerful early 20th-century etching by German artist Käthe Kollwitz that poignantly depicts a mother's grief and has become one of her most iconic anti-war images.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork
etching
print
artForm printmaking
artist Käthe Kollwitz NERFINISHED
artisticStyle black-and-white print
color monochrome
copyrightStatus public domain
countryOfOrigin Germany
creator Käthe Kollwitz NERFINISHED
creatorNationality German
depictionType figurative
depicts dead child
mother holding dead child
woman
genre anti-war art
expressionism
hasCollectionItem British Museum NERFINISHED
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin NERFINISHED
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln NERFINISHED
Museum of Modern Art NERFINISHED
hasInfluenceOn 20th-century anti-war imagery
socially engaged printmaking
hasTheme anti-war sentiment
human suffering
loss
motherhood
inception 1903
influencedBy personal experiences of loss
languageOfWorkOrName none
locationOfCreation Berlin NERFINISHED
madeIn Berlin NERFINISHED
mainSubject death
grief
mother and child
mourning
medium drypoint
etching
movement German Expressionism NERFINISHED
notableFor iconic anti-war image
powerful depiction of maternal grief
originalTitle Frau mit totem Kind NERFINISHED
partOf Käthe Kollwitz’s early print oeuvre
period early 20th century
publicationDate 1903
technique etching and drypoint
titleLanguage German

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Käthe Kollwitz notableWork Woman with Dead Child