{"id":2255,"date":"2023-07-10T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/unkategorisiert\/sculpture-pieta\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:57:48","slug":"sculpture-pieta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/sculpture-pieta\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture &#8216;Piet\u00e0&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Kollwitz\u2019s last major sculptural work was created in the spring of 1938: <em>Mother with dead Son<\/em>, also called <em>Piet\u00e0<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/DA_Video_Pieta_ENG.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Video on the sculpture &#8216;Piet\u00e0&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her increasing age and the limited income possibilities in the Third Reich forced K\u00e4the Kollwitz to model sculptures only in smaller formats. The looming Second World War brought back memories of the death of her son Peter. Above all, the motif of mothers protecting their children became an important theme, for which K\u00e4the Kollwitz achieved interesting pictorial presentations in sculpture and graphic art. The sculpture <em>Mother with dead Son<\/em> represented a renewed intimate confrontation with her son, who died at an early age.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DA_Werk_KK_Pieta_1937-39_1200x851px-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Group of figures consisting of two persons. A woman sitting on the floor; a lifeless adult crouches between her knees in her lap. He is embraced protectively by the woman, like a child seeking shelter in its mother's lap. The woman is wearing a cloak-like garment; her hair is completely covered by a cloth. She holds her hand in front of her mouth with her right arm resting on her knee. The other hand holds the fingertips of the dead man, in a delicate touch. Her eyes are closed.      \" class=\"wp-image-240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DA_Werk_KK_Pieta_1937-39_1200x851px-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DA_Werk_KK_Pieta_1937-39_1200x851px-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DA_Werk_KK_Pieta_1937-39_1200x851px-768x1083.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/DA_Werk_KK_Pieta_1937-39_1200x851px.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Mother with dead son (Piet\u00e0), 1937\/38, bronze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/cycle-death\/\">Previous Post: Age and Death &#8211; &#8216;Death&#8217; Cycle<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/new-guard\/\">Next Post: Age and Death &#8211; New Guard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/tour-permanent-exhibition\/\">Back to table of contents<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kollwitz\u2019s last major sculptural work was created in the spring of 1938: Mother with dead Son, also called Piet\u00e0. Her increasing age and the limited income possibilities in the Third Reich forced K\u00e4the Kollwitz to model sculptures only in smaller formats. The looming Second World War brought back memories of the death of her son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-cover.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-age-and-death","category-permanent-exhibition"],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","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=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}