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Maker(s):Kollwitz, Käthe
Culture:German (1867 - 1945)
Title:Tod (Death); Plate II from the series Ein Weberaufstand (A Weavers' Rebellion)
Date Made:1897
Type:Print
Materials:lithograph on yellow-brown chine collé mounted on thick white wove paper
Place Made:Germany
Measurements:image: 8 13/16 in. x 7 5/16 in.; 22.38375 cm x 18.57375 cm; chine collé: 9 7/16 in.; 7 9/16 in.; 23.97125 cm x 19.20875; sheet (irregular): 13 3/4 in x 11 3/8 in; 34.925 cm x 28.8925 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed in pencil at lower right: K. Kollwitz, inscribed in pencil at lower left: Weber B 1. II
Accession Number:  SC 1958.44
Credit Line:Purchased
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
1958_44.jpg

Description:
dark interior; woman sitting at a table, eyes closed, leaning away, child sitting at table, an arm held around his neck, to the right, the skull and arm of a skeleton emerges, its arm reaching for the dead or sleeping woman; man standing facing away in right foreground; face of child and skull lit by candle on the table; allegory; history; social realism; tragedy; poverty

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