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Charge, Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz
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Käthe Kollwitz: Losbruch, Druckplatte. Stiftung Archiv der Akademie der Künste, Kunstsammlung, Berlin

Käthe Kollwitz

Charge, 1902 – 1903

Sheet 5 of the cycle ‘Peasant War’

Blatt
656 x 784 mm
Platte
515 x 592 mm
Physical Description
Line etching, drypoint, aquatint, reservage, and soft ground
Inventory Number
65134
Object Number
65134 D
Acquisition
Acquired in 1909 as a gift from the Verbindung für historische Kunst (Association of Historical Art), commissioned by that association for its members in 1908
Status
Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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The cycle’s heroine urges the tumultuous throng of peasants to battle with a vigorous upward thrust of her hands. Kollwitz has embedded the expressively dynamic female figure and the wildly charging men in a landscape animated by various textures but ultimately abstract.

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06.11.2024