Artworks · Käthe Kollwitz

Head: Self-Portrait

1912 · Soft ground etching, etching and aquatint on cream wove paper

Plate: 14 × 10 cm (5 9/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.4 × 22.8 cm (12 × 9 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait with Hand on Forehead (Selbstbildnis mit der Hand an der Stirn)

1910 · etching and drypoint in black-brown ink on wove paper

plate: 15.5 x 13.6 cm (6 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.) sheet: 43.3 x 30.2 cm (17 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Death, Mother and Child

1910 · Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on brownish gray wove paper

64.5 × 46.4 cm (25 7/16 × 18 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Death, Woman, and Child

1910 · Etching in black on buff wove paper

Plate: 40 × 39.5 cm (15 3/4 × 15 9/16 in.); Sheet: 56.2 × 73 cm (22 3/16 × 28 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Working Woman (with the Earring)

1910 · Etching and soft ground etching in black on cream wove paper (discolored to tan)

Image: 31.8 × 23.8 cm (12 9/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Plate: 32 × 24 cm (12 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet, sight: 32.8 × 24.8 cm (12 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Death, Woman, and Child (Tod, Frau und Kind)

1910 · Etching and drypoint

plate: 16 1/16 x 16 3/16" (40.8 x 41.1 cm); sheet: 21 7/8 x 24 1/8" (55.6 x 61.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait, Hand at the Forehead (Selbstbildnis mit der Hand an der Stirn)

1910 · Etching and drypoint

plate: 6 1/16 x 5 1/2" (15.4 x 13.9 cm); sheet: 13 1/8 x 9 13/16" (33.3 x 24.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Inspiration

1908 · Etching, soft ground etching, and aquatint, with drypoint, on cream wove paper

Max., trimmed to within platemark: 56.7 × 29.7 cm (22 3/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Prisoners, plate 7 from the portfolio "The Peasants War"

1908 · Etching, drypoint and soft ground in brown on ivory wove paper

Image: 30.2 × 41 cm (11 15/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Plate: 32.5 × 42.5 cm (12 13/16 × 16 3/4 in.); Sheet: 55.8 × 72.6 cm (22 × 28 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Raped

1908 · Etching, soft ground and roulette, printed in brown, on cream wove paper

Image: 30 × 52 cm (11 13/16 × 20 1/2 in.); Sheet: 46.7 × 63.2 cm (18 7/16 × 24 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Raped

1907 · Graphite, with smudging, on ivory laid paper

41.5 × 58.8 cm (16 3/8 × 23 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Plowmen, plate 1 from Peasants’ War

1907 · Etching in black and brown on buff wove paper

Plate: 31.5 × 45 cm (12 7/16 × 17 3/4 in.); Sheet: 50 × 62.5 cm (19 11/16 × 24 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Raped

1907 · Etching, aquatint, and soft ground with graphite and brush and black and gray ink, with white gouach, on paper

Plate: 30.5 × 52.2 cm (12 1/16 × 20 9/16 in.); Sheet: 37 × 60 cm (14 5/8 × 23 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Raped

1907 · Etching, softground and roulette, printed in brown-black on paper

Plate: 30.5 × 52.2 cm (12 1/16 × 20 9/16 in.); Sheet: 45 × 56 cm (17 3/4 × 22 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Raped

1907 · Etching, soft ground and roulette, printed in black, on paper

Plate: 30.1 × 41.5 cm (11 7/8 × 16 3/8 in.); Sheet: 31.5 × 53 cm (12 7/16 × 20 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Battlefield

1907 · Etching and soft ground on paper

Plate: 40.2 × 52.7 cm (15 7/8 × 20 3/4 in.); Sheet: 54.8 × 70.2 cm (21 5/8 × 27 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sharpening the Scythe (Biem Dengeln)

1905 · Compressed charcoal on cream laid paper

39.6 × 32 cm (15 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait en Face (Selbstbildnis en face) state I/II

1904 · Crayon and pen lithograph, printed in three colors

composition (irreg.): 17 5/16 × 13 3/8" (44 × 34 cm); sheet: 18 7/8 × 13 3/8" (47.9 × 34 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Raped

1903 · Etching and soft ground and roulette in dark brown, with scraping and touches of black wash, on cream wove paper

Image/plate: 30.5 × 52.2 cm (12 1/16 × 20 9/16 in.); Sheet: 44.9 × 62.8 cm (17 11/16 × 24 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Working Woman

1903 · Lithograph on buff wove paper

Image: 45 × 33 cm (17 3/4 × 13 in.); Sheet: 51.7 × 39.4 cm (20 3/8 × 15 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind)

1903 · Line etching, drypoint, sandpaper, and soft ground with the imprint of laid paper and Ziegler’s transfer paper, overworked with charcoal

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16 3/4 × 19 1/8" (42.5 × 48.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind) state VIII/X

1903 · Line etching, drypoint, sandpaper, and soft-ground etching with the imprint of laid paper and Ziegler's transfer paper on chine collé

composition: 16 1/4 × 18 9/16" (41.2 × 47.1 cm); sheet: 21 7/16 × 27 11/16" (54.5 × 70.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Working Woman with Blue Shawl

1903 · color lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

Head of a woman

1902 · Black chalk with touches of white and pale tan chalk on brown wove paper

40.6 × 32.1 cm (16 × 12 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Raped

1902 · Etching, soft ground and roulette, retouched in graphite, on paper

30.6 × 52.2 cm (12 1/16 × 20 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Carmagnole

1901 · Etching and aquatint in brown on tan wove paper

Image: 52.5 × 33.9 cm (20 11/16 × 13 3/8 in.); Plate: 59 × 41.1 cm (23 1/4 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 63.2 × 59.2 cm (24 15/16 × 23 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Losbruch

1898 · paper, chalk

height: 550 cm, width: 650 cm

Rijksmuseum

Ein Weberaufstand

1897 · lithography on paper

height: 457 cm, width: 153 cm, width: 351 cm, height: 155 cm

Rijksmuseum

Study for End (Ende)

1896 · Charcoal on paper

10 1/8 × 11 3/4" (25.7 × 29.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Study for Marching Weavers (Weberzug) plate 4 of A Weavers’ Revolt

1896 · Charcoal, ink, pencil, watercolor, and pastel on paper

11 3/8 × 12 3/8" (28.9 × 31.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

March of the Weavers (Weberzug)

1893 · Etching

plate: 8 7/16 x 11 11/16" (21.4 x 29.7 cm); sheet: 12 5/16 x 17 5/8" (31.2 x 44.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Zelfportret aan tafel

1893 · aquatint on paper

width: 130 cm, height: 178 cm

Rijksmuseum

Six People at a Table by Lamplight (Sechs Personen an einem Tisch bei Lampenlicht)

1892 · Ink on paper

12 3/4 × 19 1/4" (32.4 × 48.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait

1891 · Brush and opaque black and white watercolor on brown wove paper

41 × 33 cm (16 3/16 × 13 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago