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Woman at the Cradle

Woman at the Cradle

Käthe Kollwitz (in 1897)

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De precieze datering van deze prent is niet bekend. Mogelijk is de baby in de wieg Kollwitz’ tweede zoon Peter, geboren in februari 1896. Hij diende in 1914 als soldaat bij het Duitse leger en sneuvelde op 18-jarige leeftijd. In de jaren die volgden werkte Kollwitz aan een monument voor hem en zijn gesneuvelde kameraden. Ze vernietigde de eerste versie in 1919 en begon in 1925 aan een tweede versie, ’Rouwende ouders’ getiteld. Deze werd in 1932 bij het graf van haar zoon geplaatst., We do not know the precise date of this print. It is possible that the baby in the cradle is Kollwitz’s second son Peter, born in February 1896. He served as a soldier in the German army in 1914 and dies at the age of eighteen. In the years that followed Kollwitz worked on a monument for him and his fallen comrades. In 1919 she destroyed the first version and in 1925 began a second version entitled ‘Parents Mourning’, which was placed by her son’s grave in 1932.

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Title Woman at the Cradle
Material and technique Etching and drypoint
Object type
Print > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 275 mm
Width 146 mm
Artists Graphic artist: Käthe Kollwitz
Publisher: Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst
Accession number L 1956/7 (PK)
Credits Purchased with the support of Lucas van Leyden Foundation, 1956
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1956
Creation date in 1897
Material
Object
Technique
Etching > Manual > Intaglio printing techniques > Printing technique > Technique > Material and technique
Dry-point > Engraving > Engraved > Manual > Intaglio printing techniques > Printing technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin Germany > Western Europe > Europe

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Käthe Kollwitz

Königsberg 1867 - Moritzburg 1945

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