Artworks · Käthe Kollwitz

Pregnant Woman Contemplating Suicide (recto) Three Studies of a Child (verso)

1921 · black chalk or charcoal? (rubbed in places)

Sheet: 64.3 x 49.7 cm (25 5/16 x 19 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht

1920 · Woodcut with additions in brush and black ink, on cream Japanese paper

Image: 35.7 × 50 cm (14 1/16 × 19 11/16 in.); Block: 38.5 × 52.8 cm (15 3/16 × 20 13/16 in.); Sheet: 45.1 × 57.2 cm (17 13/16 × 22 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht (Gedenkblatt für Karl Liebknecht) state V/VI

1920 · Woodcut

composition: 13 3/4 x 19 5/8" (34.9 x 49.9 cm); sheet: 18 3/4 x 25 1/16" (47.7 x 63.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Small Self-Portrait (Kleines Selbstbildnis) (plate 3) from Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)

1920 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with fifteen lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight reproductions and one lithographed cover

composition (irreg.): 9 1/8 x 8 1/16" (23.1 x 20.5 cm); page: 13 7/16 x 9 1/2" (34.2 x 24.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Small Self-Portrait (Kleines Selbstbildnis)

1919 · Lithographic crayon and ink on paper

sheet (irreg.): 19 11/16 × 12 5/16" (50 × 31.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mother with a Child in her Arms (Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm) (plate, folio 5) from the periodicial Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 2 (Apr 1916)

1916 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 10 7/8 x 7 7/16" (27.6 x 18.9 cm); page: 14 x 11" (35.5 x 28 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis)

1915 · Lithograph

Sheet: 18 x 13 1/2 in. (45.7 x 34.3 cm) Image: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (27.3 x 23.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Man and Woman

1914 · Charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on cream laid paper

48.3 × 33.5 cm (19 1/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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

Tod und Frau (Death and Woman)

1910 · Etching with roulette

plate: 17 1/8 × 17" (43.5 × 43.2 cm); sheet: 23 9/16 × 21 1/8" (59.8 × 53.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

Sharpening the Scythe

1905 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman with Folded Arms

1905 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

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

Young Couple (Junges Paar)

1904 · Etching

plate: 11 5/8 x 12 7/16 in. (29.5 x 31.6 cm) sheet: 15 5/8 x 21 1/4 in. (39.7 x 54 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of 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

Mother and Dead Son (Mutter und toter Sohn), state II/IV. Rejected version of Battlefield (Schlachtfeld) plate 6 from Peasants’ War

1903 · Line etching, drypoint, soft ground, needle bundle, and burnisher overworked in brown ink and gouache

plate: 9 × 13 1/4" (22.8 × 33.6 cm); sheet: 9 3/16 × 13 7/16" (23.4 × 34.2 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

Downtrod Woman (Zertretene from Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst)

1900 · Etching

9 7/16 x 32 15/16 in. (23.9 x 83.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Uprising (Aufruhr)

1899 · Etching, drypoint, and aquatint; seventh state of nine

plate: 11 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (29.5 x 32.1 cm) sheet: 17 13/16 x 24 7/8 in. (45.2 x 63.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Losbruch

1898 · paper, chalk

height: 550 cm, width: 650 cm

Rijksmuseum

Study for Storming the Gate – Attack (Sturm) plate 5 of A Weavers’ Revolt

1897 · Ink, pencil and gouache on paper

Sheet (irreg.): 23 1/4 × 17 5/16" (59.1 × 44 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ein Weberaufstand

1897 · lithography on paper

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

Rijksmuseum

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

Study for End (Ende)

1896 · Charcoal on paper

10 1/8 × 11 3/4" (25.7 × 29.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Council

1895 · Etching; fifth state of seven

plate: 11 5/8 x 7 in. (29.5 x 17.8 cm) sheet: 18 11/16 x 13 3/4 in. (47.5 x 34.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of 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