07 Works, The Art of War, Käthe Kollwitz’s the War (Krieg) series, with footnotes

Käthe Kollwitz
The Sacrifice, sheet 1 of the series »War«, c. 1922

Woodcut
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum

In 1919, Käthe Kollwitz began work on Krieg (War), her response to the tragedies endured during what she called those “unspeakably difficult years” of World War I and its aftermath. The portfolio’s seven woodcuts focus on the sorrows of those left behind…

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