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The Parents, Käthe Kollwitz, 1922–23

The Parents
1922–1923
Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945)
From edition A, 18/100, Woodcut on japan paper
Sieben Holzschnitte zum Krieg (Dresden, 1924), pl. 3
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.193c)
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The Parents, Käthe Kollwitz, 1922–23

The Parents, Käthe Kollwitz, 1922–23

Nearly ten years after Kollwitz lost her youngest son in the war, she created this series of woodcuts which expressed the unending sorrow and despair experienced by those who had lost their loved ones. Their lives were never the same again.

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