Artist
Käthe Kollwitz 1867 – 1945
About the work
The drawing is part of a group of works from 1903 that deal with a mother's pain and mourning for her dead child. The starting point for the intensive examination of the theme was the work on the cycle of prints on the Peasant War. Here, Käthe Kollwitz takes up the Christian pictorial formula of the Pieta, in which the dead body of her son lies in Mary's lap. The motif is realized sensitively and touchingly: In the mother's tight embrace the body of the dead son is completely embraced.
On the back of the sheet the artist has traced the drawing in rough outlines with red chalk.
Year
1903
Material / Technique
Charcoal, pencil
Dimensions of the object
48 x 62,2 cm
Signature
sign. u. r.: Kollwitz
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
Z 186
Access
1926 acquired at an auction at Helbing, Frankfurt am Main
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/May Voigt
© gemeinfrei
Status
Not on display
Exhibitions
- Käthe Kollwitz, Druckgrafik. Kabinettausstellung, Städtische Kunstsammlung Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) 24.01.1987 – 31.05.1987
- Schmerz und Schuld (50. Todestag), Berlin, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum 22.04.1995 – 06.06.1995
- Käthe Kollwitz - Das Bild der Frau, Kunsthalle Bielefeld 08.08.1999 – 03.10.1999
- Im Morgenlicht der Republik. 100 Jahre Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz 25.07.2020 – 25.10.2020
Catalog raisonné
Nagel 232
Year
1903
Material / Technique
Charcoal, pencil
Dimensions of the object
48 x 62,2 cm
Signature
sign. u. r.: Kollwitz
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
Z 186
Access
1926 acquired at an auction at Helbing, Frankfurt am Main
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/May Voigt
© gemeinfrei
Status
Not on display
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