The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Woman with Folded Arms
1905
(German, 1867–1945)
Catalogue raisonné: Klipstein 85
Location: not on view
Description
This lithograph is one of several Käthe Kollwitz made of working-class women while she was living in a poor section of Berlin. She drew the body and face with a crayon on the lithographic stone and covered the background with a waxy, uneven tone that contributes to the isolation and cold conveyed in the woman’s posture. Although Kollwitz did not formally join an Expressionist group, her work strongly reflects their directive to use empathy and emotion for social or political impact. She considered prints, with their reproducibility and relative affordability, as crucial to creating widescale compassion for the struggles and ills of the oppressed.- Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984).Käthe Kollwitz. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 13-July 13, 1980).Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.214