Battlefield

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Artist

Name:: Kollwitz, Käthe
Dates:: 1867-1945
Country:: Germany

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Techniques:: Etching, Halftone Process
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Käthe Kollwitz
Author:: Kuhn, Alfred
Publisher:: Berlin: Verlag Neue Kunsthandlung, 1921
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Description:

A woman in a black dress and holding a lantern bends to light up and touch the face of a dead man on a battlefield. This picture is the sixth of the cycle “Peasants’ War.”

The caption reads in the original German: Schlachtfeld (1907).

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{{cite web | title=Battlefield | url=https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/schlachtfeld/ | author=Kollwitz, Käthe | year=1921 | access-date=June 2, 2025 | publisher=Old Book Illustrations}}