Artworks · Käthe Kollwitz

Ask the Women and Children Whom Hitler is Starving Whether Rationing Is Too Great a "Sacrifice"

1942 · Lithograph

55 3/4 x 39 13/16" (141.6 x 101.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Lamentation

1941 · Plaster and metallic paint

10 7/8 × 10 3/8 × 3 7/8" (27.6 × 26.4 × 9.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Tower of Mothers

1939 · Bronze

11 × 11 1/2 × 10" (27.9 × 29.2 × 25.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait in Profile Toward Right (Selbstbildnis im Profil nach rechts)

1938 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 18 11/16 x 11 1/4" (47.4 x 28.5 cm); sheet: 25 5/16 x 19 1/16" (64.3 x 48.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Call of Death (Ruf des Todes), plate 8 from the series Death (Tod)

1937 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 15 1/2 x 14 7/16" (39.3 x 36.6 cm); sheet: 25 1/8 x 21 1/8" (63.8 x 53.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Maiden in the Lap of Death

1934 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 43.4 × 37.8 cm (17 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.); Sheet: 70.5 × 53.5 cm (27 13/16 × 21 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Clasping the Hand of Death , plate 1 of 8 from the set "Tod"

1934 · Lithograph on buff wove paper

458 × 393 mm (image): 703 × 535 mm (sheet)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Call of Death

1934 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 38 × 38.3 cm (15 × 15 1/8 in.); Sheet: 65.1 × 53.3 cm (25 11/16 × 21 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Death Attacks a Woman

1934 · Lithograph on cream wove paper

Image: 50.5 × 36.5 cm (19 15/16 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 64 × 52.7 cm (25 1/4 × 20 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Giving her Hand to Death

1934 · Lithograph on paper

66 × 50 cm (26 × 19 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tod greift in Kinderschar (Death Seizes the Children), plate 3 from the series Tod (Death)

1934 · Lithograph

composition: 19 1/2 × 16 1/8" (49.5 × 41 cm); sheet: 27 3/4 × 21 3/4" (70.5 × 55.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Death Seizes the Children (Tod greift in Kinderschar)

1934 · Charcoal on paper

sheet (irreg.): 27 1/2 × 20 5/8" (69.9 × 52.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis)

1934 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 8 1/8 x 7 3/8" (20.6 x 18.7 cm); sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 5/8" (37.5 x 27 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Woman Entrusts Herself to Death (Frau vertraut sich dem Tode an) from the series Death (Tod)

1934 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 18 x 15 5/16" (45.7 x 38.9 cm); sheet: 25 1/2 x 21 1/8" (64.7 x 53.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Young Girl in the Lap of Death (Tod hält Mädchen im Schoß) from the series Death (Tod)

1934 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 16 13/16 x 14 13/16" (42.7 x 37.7 cm); sheet (irreg.): 29 7/8 x 20 15/16" (75.9 x 53.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Death Seizes a Woman (Tod packt eine Frau), plate 4 from the series Death (Tod)

1934 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 19 15/16 x 14 1/2" (50.7 x 36.8 cm); sheet: 25 1/4 x 20 7/8" (64.1 x 53.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Death Seizes the Children (Tod greift in Kinderschar), plate 3 from the series Death (Tod)

1934 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 19 3/4 x 16 1/4" (50.1 x 41.3 cm); sheet: 25 1/4 x 21 1/8" (64.2 x 53.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Death (Tod)

1934 · Five from a series of eight lithographs

composition (see child records): dimensions vary; sheet (each approx.): 26 3/16 x 21" (66.5 x 53.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Two Chatting Women with Two Children (Zwei schwatzende Frauen mit zwei Kindern)

1930 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 11 11/16 x 10 3/16" (29.7 x 25.8 cm); sheet: 19 3/4 x 14 1/8" (50.1 x 35.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Three Studies of a Child (verso)

1930 · black chalk or charcoal?

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

Cleveland Museum of Art

Mary and Elizabeth

1929 · Woodcut in black on cream Japanese paper

Sheet: 39.8 × 45 cm (15 11/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

1927 · Lithograph on dark handmade paper

Image: 32 × 29 cm (12 5/8 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 54 × 38 cm (21 5/16 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait in Profile

1927 · Lithograph on Japanese paper

Image: 41 × 35 cm (16 3/16 × 13 13/16 in.); Sheet: 64.2 × 45 cm (25 5/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Homecoming (Die Heimkehr) [Poster for the Groß Berliner Arbeitsgemeinschaft für alkoholfreie Jugenderziehung (Working Committee of Greater Berlin for the Alcohol-Free Upbringing of Youth)]

1927 · Photolithograph

composition: 29 1/8 x 22 13/16" (73.9 x 58 cm); sheet: 33 3/16 x 29 3/16" (84.3 x 74.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Worker Woman with Sleeping Child (Arbeiterfrau mit schlafendem Jungen)

1927 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 15 3/8 x 13 1/8" (39.1 x 33.4 cm); sheet: 21 5/8 x 15 3/4" (55 x 40 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mothers, Give from your Abundance (Mütter gebt von eurem Überfluss)

1926 · Lithograph

sheet: 20 7/8 x 16 in. (53.1 x 40.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cottage Industry

1925 · Lithograph on cream wove paper

Image: 32.5 × 43 cm (12 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet, sight: 37 × 47.9 cm (14 5/8 × 18 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Child's Head (Kinderkopf)

1925 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 5 5/16 x 4 1/8" (13.5 x 10.5 cm); sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 11/16" (26.4 x 19.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Proletariat: No. 1 Out of Work

1925 · woodcut

Cleveland Museum of Art

Self-Portrait

1924 · Transfer lithograph in black on cream wove paper

54 × 38.2 cm (21 5/16 × 15 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman and Children Going to Their Death (Frau mit Kindern in den Tod gehend)

1924 · Charcoal on gray paper

sheet: 22 13/16 × 17 13/16" (58 × 45.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Last Thing (Das Letzte)

1924 · Woodcut

composition (irreg.): 11 9/16 x 5 1/16" (29.4 x 12.8 cm); sheet (irreg.): 13 15/16 x 9 3/4" (35.4 x 24.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Frau mit Kindern in den Tod gehend (Woman and Children Going to their Death)

1923 · Woodcut

composition: 19 5/8 × 15 3/4" (49.9 × 40 cm); sheet: 23 3/4 × 18 9/16" (60.4 × 47.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hunger

1922 · Woodcut

composition: 8 11/16 × 9" (22 × 22.8 cm); sheet: 16 5/16 × 12 5/16" (41.5 × 31.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Widow II (Die Witwe II), state II/II. Rejected third version of plate 5 of War (Krieg).

1922 · Woodcut, overworked in black ink and opaque white

composition: 7 7/8 × 11 7/8" (20 × 30.2 cm); sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 3/8" (23.2 × 34 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Frontal Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis von vorn), state XIV/XIV

1922 · Woodcut

composition: 5 7/8 x 6 1/8" (15 x 15.6 cm); sheet: 10 11/16 x 8 7/16" (27.1 x 21.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Sacrifice (Das Opfer), state IX/IX, plate 1 from War (Krieg)

1922 · One from a portfolio of eight woodcuts (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 14 5/8 x 16 1/16" (37.2 x 40.8 cm); sheet: 18 3/4 x 25 11/16" (47.6 x 65.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Widow II (Die Witwe II), state VII/VII, plate 5 from War (Krieg)

1922 · One from a portfolio of eight woodcuts (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 11 13/16 x 20 7/8" (30 x 53 cm); sheet: 18 3/4 x 25 15/16" (47.7 x 65.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The People (Das Volk), state VII/VII, plate 7 from War (Krieg)

1922 · One from a portfolio of eight woodcuts (including cover)

composition: 14 3/16 x 11 13/16" (36 x 30 cm); sheet: 25 11/16 x 18 13/16" (65.3 x 47.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

War (Krieg)

1921 · Portfolio of eight woodcuts (including cover)

composition: see child records; sheet (each approx.): 18 3/4 x 25 15/16" (47.6 x 65.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Mothers (Die Mütter), state VII/VII, plate 6 from War (Krieg)

1921 · One from a portfolio of eight woodcuts (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 13 1/2 x 15 3/4" (34.3 x 40 cm); sheet (irreg.): 18 9/16 x 26 1/8" (47.2 x 66.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Widow I (Die Witwe I) state V/V, plate 4 from War (Krieg)

1921 · One from a portfolio of eight woodcuts (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 14 5/8 x 9 5/16" (37.2 x 23.6 cm); sheet (irreg.): 26 x 18 3/4" (66 x 47.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Volunteers (Die Freiwilligen), state IV/IV, plate 2 from War (Krieg)

1921 · One from a portfolio of eight woodcuts (including cover)

composition: 13 3/4 x 19 1/2" (34.9 x 49.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 18 11/16 x 25 3/4" (47.5 x 65.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Parents (Die Eltern), state V/V plate 3 from War (Krieg)

1921 · One from a portfolio of eight woodcuts (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 13 13/16 x 16 3/4" (35.1 x 42.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 18 5/8 x 25 11/16" (47.3 x 65.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Widow I (Die Witwe 1) (front cover) from War (Krieg)

1921 · One from a portfolio of eight woodcuts (including cover)

composition (irreg.): 14 7/8 x 9 5/8" (37.8 x 24.5 cm); sheet (folded): 26 7/16 x 19" (67.2 x 48.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Frontal Crouching Woman with Crossed Hands (Hockende Frau von vorne mit übereinander gelegten Händen) from the portfolio Seventeen Lithographs (Siebzehn Steinzeichnungen)

1921 · Lithograph

composition (irreg): 11 5/8 x 8 11/16" (29.6 x 22 cm); sheet: 17 11/16 x 13 7/16" (44.9 x 34.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Help Russia (Helft Russland)

1921 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 15 3/4 x 18 3/4" (40 x 47.6 cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 25 9/16" (50 x 65 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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