01 Work, The Art of War, Käthe Kollwitz's Woman with a dead child, with footnotes

Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)

Woman with a dead child, c. 1903

Line etching, drypoint, emery and vernis mou with printing of handmade paper and Ziegler'schem transfer paper, with gold-colored, injected clay stone

 41.7 x 47.2 cm (16 7/16 x 18 9/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art 

The depicted child is the youngest son Peter Kollwitz (1896-1914) at the age of 7 years.

Käthe Kollwitz (born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class.[4][5] Despite the realism of her early works, her art is now more closely associated with Expressionism.[6] Kollwitz was the first woman not only to be elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts but also to receive honorary professor status. More on Käthe Kollwitz

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