{"id":2227,"date":"2023-07-10T14:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/unkategorisiert\/death-woman-and-child\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:34:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:34:55","slug":"death-woman-and-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/death-woman-and-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Death, woman and child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

K\u00e4the Kollwitz\u2019s art works on the theme of Woman with Dead Child<\/em> are another highlight. K\u00e4the Kollwitz intensively engaged with this theme from 1903 onwards, in connection with her work on the Peasants’ War. In the early etching of 1903 she already dealt with the motif of maternal mourning and took it up again in 1910 in the etching Death, Woman and Child<\/em>. In the 1930s, she then worked the Mother with Dead Son<\/em> into her famous bronze statue, also called Piet\u00e0<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Woman with a dead child, 1903, etching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The etching from 1903 shows a naked woman desperately burrowing her head into the chest of her dead child, giving an almost animalistic impression. The sculptural effect of the group of figures is particularly impressive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Here a female artist has expressed what a male imagination would never have seen, what the man will probably hardly feel and what only a woman, who is a mother and has experienced moments of trembling for a child herself in all violence, could see before her with such physicality.”<\/p>\nAnna Plehn: The new etchings by K\u00e4the Kollwitz, in: Die Frau, 11. Jg.,1903-04, pp. 234-238, here p. 235<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

K\u00e4the Kollwitz took herself and her younger son Peter as models for this print, as seen in a letter to Arthur Bonus in 1925:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“When he was seven years old and I made the etching \u201cThe Woman with the Dead Child\u201d, I drew myself, holding him in my arms, in the mirror. It was very exhausting, and I had to groan. Then his child’s voice said consolingly: Be quiet, mother, it will be very beautiful…” <\/p>\nArthur Bonus, Das K\u00e4the Kollwitz-Werk, Dresden 1928, p. 7<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Death, Woman and Child, 1910, etching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As is so often the case in Kollwitz’s works, the mother \ufb01gure in the etching Death, Woman and Child<\/em> from 1910 bears a resemblance to herself. In a haunting pose \u2014 resting cheek to cheek \u2014 the mother clutches her child, whom Death is trying to take away from her. In contrast to the charcoal drawing, Death makes a visible appearance here, pushed to the very edge of the composition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Death, Woman and Child, 1910, charcoal drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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K\u00e4the Kollwitz\u2019s art works on the theme of Woman with Dead Child are another highlight. K\u00e4the Kollwitz intensively engaged with this theme from 1903 onwards, in connection with her work on the Peasants’ War. In the early etching of 1903 she already dealt with the motif of maternal mourning and took it up again in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-cover.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nude-representation","category-permanent-exhibition"],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}