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Käthe Kollwitz

Pregnant Woman, 1910, published 1921

Description

Maker

Title

Pregnant Woman

Year

1910, published 1921

Medium

Etching, drypoint, aquatint, and softground with the imprint of laid paper and Ziegler's transfer paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

Plate: 36.8 x 22.9 cm (14 1/2 x 9 inches)

Identification

State

State 5. Kn. 111, state V

Type

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

2005.142.52

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A Process of Protest

July 28 - November 26, 2006

Around the time she made this etching, Kollwitz wrote in her personal journal about pregnancy, a subject she pursued in both graphic arts and sculpture:

I imagine the following sculpture as utterly beautiful: a pregnant woman chiseled out of stone. Carved only down to the knees so that she looks the way Lise [Kollwitz’s sister] said she did the time she was pregnant with Maria: ‘As if I am rooted to the ground.’ The immobility, restraint, introspection. The arms and hands dangling heavily, the head lowered, all attention directed inward. And the whole thing in heavy, heavy stone. Title: Pregnancy. [Journal entry of September 1, 1911]

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