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Working Woman with Blue Shawl

1903

Käthe Kollwitz

(German, 1867–1945)
Culture
Germany, 20th century
Medium
color lithograph
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1932.320
Catalogue raisonné
Klipstein 68
State
III/III
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Käthe Kollwitz's husband was a doctor who treated the working poor in Berlin, giving her firsthand experience with their struggles.

Description

Käthe Kollwitz favored printmaking because she saw it as a democratic medium, affordable and capable of reaching all social classes. In prints such as this portrait of a female worker, she depicted Berlin’s most disenfranchised inhabitants. The sitter’s direct gaze and exhausted pose suggest not only her difficult living and working conditions but also her dignity.

Working Woman with Blue Shawl

1903

Käthe Kollwitz

(German, 1867–1945)
Germany, 20th century

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