Artist
Käthe Kollwitz 1867 – 1945
About the work
Käthe Kollwitz sketched the murdered KPD politician Karl Liebknecht at the Berlin morgue on the day of his funeral in January 1919, at the request of his widow. She was critical of the prominent socialist’s beliefs and noted in her diary in 1920: ‘As an artist, I have the right to extract the emotional content from everything, to let it affect me and to express it outwardly. So I also have the right to depict the working class’s farewell to Liebknecht, indeed to dedicate it to the workers, without thereby following Liebknecht politically. Or do I not?!’
Year
1920
Material / Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions of the object
43,9 x 57,1 cm
Signature
unsign.; bez. im Stock u.: DIE LEBENDEN DEM TOTEN. ERINNERUNG AN DEN 15. JANUAR 1919
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
86-47
Access
Acquisition process unknown
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/PUNCTUM/Bertram Kober
© gemeinfrei
Status
Not on display
Exhibitions
- Käthe Kollwitz, Druckgrafik. Kabinettausstellung, Städtische Kunstsammlung Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) 24.01.1987 – 31.05.1987
- Spuren der Nähe. Käthe Kollwitz und zeitgenössische Fotografie, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz 07.5.2026 – 30.8.2026
Catalog raisonné
Knesebeck 159 VI
Year
1920
Material / Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions of the object
43,9 x 57,1 cm
Signature
unsign.; bez. im Stock u.: DIE LEBENDEN DEM TOTEN. ERINNERUNG AN DEN 15. JANUAR 1919
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
86-47
Access
Acquisition process unknown
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/PUNCTUM/Bertram Kober
© gemeinfrei
Status
Not on display
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