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Artist
- Name:
- Kollwitz, Käthe
- Dates:
- 1867-1945
- Country:
- Germany
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Etching, Halftone process
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Käthe Kollwitz
- Author(s):
- Kuhn, Alfred
- Publisher:
- Berlin: Verlag Neue Kunsthandlung, 1921
- Open Library:
- View record.
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).
Keywords: 1920s, 20th century, black & white, dark, death, sad
