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- Welcome to the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
- Early works based on literary sources and works inspired by the places where the artist lived
- Praying Young Woman, 1892, line etching, drypoint and aquatint, Kn 14
Kneeling Woman in front of a picture of the Virgin Mary, circa 1893, pen in ink, NT 90
At the Church Wall, 1893, line etching, drypoint and brush etching, Kn 17
Gretchen, 1899, line etching, drypoint, aquatint and burnisher, Kn 45 - Beer Garden, early 1890s (?), oil sketch
- Workers coming from the Station (Prenzlauer Allee Station), 1897-1899, brush and watercolour, heightened with white, on Ingres paper, NT 146
- The Carmagnole, 1901, line etching, drypoint, aquatint respectively brush etching, sandpaper, Kn 51
- Praying Young Woman, 1892, line etching, drypoint and aquatint, Kn 14
- Cycle »A Weavers’ Revolt«
- Sheet 1 »Need«, 1893–1897, crayon and pen lithograph with scratch technique, Kn 33
Sheet 2 »Death«, 1893-1897, crayon, pen and brush lithograph with scratch technique, Kn 34
Sheet 3 »Conspiracy«, 1893-1897, crayon lithograph with scratch technique, Kn 35
Sheet 4 »March of the Weavers«, 1893-1897, line etching and sandpaper, Kn 36
Sheet 5 »Storming the Gate - Attack«, 1893-1897, line etching and sandpaper, Kn 37
Sheet 6 »End«, 1893-1897, line etching, aquatint, sandpaper and burnisher, Kn 38 - »From many wounds you bleed, oh people«, 1893-1897, line etching, drypoint, aquatint and burnisher, Kn 32
- Sheet 1 »Need«, 1893–1897, crayon and pen lithograph with scratch technique, Kn 33
- Parisian inspirations
- Bust of a Working Woman with Blue Shawl, 1903, crayon and brush lithograph in two colours, with scratch technique in the drawing stone, printed blue, Kn 75
- Parisian Cellar Tavern, 1904, coloured chalk on ochre-coloured Canson drawing cardboard, NT (277a)
Caveau des Innocents, 1904, coloured chalk on brownish drawing cardboard, NT 275
- The »Peasants War« Cycle
- Works in the context of the »Peasants War« Cycle
- Uprising, 1899, line etching, drypoint, aquatint, brush etching, sandpaper, some roulette, Kn 46
- Inspiration, 1904/1905, black chalk, NT 297
Inspiration, 1904/1905, charcoal on Ingres paper, NT 296
Inspiration, 1904, line etching, drypoint, reservage, sandpaper and soft ground with imprint of laid paper, Kn 86 - Woman with dead Child, 1903, charcoal on yellowish Ingres paper, NT 234a
Woman with dead Child, 1903, charcoal and pen on Ingres paper, NT (232a)
Woman with dead Child, 1903, brown and blue pastel, NT 234
Pietà, 1903, crayon and brush lithograph in two colors, with scratch technique on the drawing stone, Kn 77 - Woman with dead Child, 1903, line etching, drypoint, sandpaper and soft ground with imprint of ribbed laid paper and Ziegler's transfer paper, Kn 81
Woman with dead Child, 1903, charcoal, with white accents green-greyisch paper, NT (241a)
- Nudes and Love Scenes
- Mothers and Children
- Mother with Child over her Shoulder, before 1917, Bronze, Seeler 15
- Woman with Child on her Lap, model c. 1911, finished 1936/1937?, bronze, Seeler 08
- Mother with two Children, 1932-1936, Bronze, Seeler 29
- Group of Children, presumably 1936/1937, bronze, Seeler 33
- Mother, clutching two Children, 1932, charcoal , NT 1232
- The Twins, 1923, black chalk on chamois-coloured paper, NT 999
- Child’s Head, en face, (Hans Kollwitz), 1893, brush and grey ink, washed, NT 72
Child´s Head (Hans Kollwitz), 1892, pencil on a fragment of paper, NT 62 - Sleeping Woman with Child, 1929, Woodcut, Kn 246
- Visit in a Children’s Hospital, 1926, Crayon lithograph (transfer), Kn 228
Two Women Chatting and Their Two Children, Final Version, 1930, Crayon lithograph (transfer), Kn 250
Mother with Young Boy, Final Version, 1933, Crayon lithograph (transfer), Kn 258
- Self-portraits
- Self-portrait, 1899, pen and black ink and brush and sepia on drawing cardboard, NT 12
- Self-portrait en face, c 1910, charcoal on grey-blue Ingres paper, NT 688
- Self-portrait, 1924, crayon lithograph (transfer), Kn 209
- Self-portrait, 1926-1936, bronze, Seeler 26
- Self-portrait, 1924, woodcut, Kn 203
Self-portrait in profile, looking left, 1924, brush and opaque white, partly washed in black, on dark-green drawing paper, NT 1001 - Self-portrait, 1934, crayon and brush lithograph (transfer), Kn 263
- Social criticism
- At the Doctor’s, sheet 3 of the series »Images of Misery«, 1908/1909, black crayon on Ingres paper, NT 475
- Warm Shelter, 1908/1909, black crayon, pen and brush with ink and sepia on olive-green paper, white highlights in the background, NT (469a)
- Bread!, final version, 1924, crayon lithograph (transfer), Kn 208
Bread!, rejected version, 1924, woodcut, Kn 207 - Under the Arch of the Bridge, 1928, charcoal and black crayon, blotted, on drawing paper, NT 1161
- Posters
- Politics
- In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht, third and final version, 1920, woodcut, Kn 159
In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht, rejected second version, 1919, crayon lithograph (transfer of drawing NT 779 on ribbed laid paper), Kn 146 - Revolution 1918, 1928, charcoal and black crayon, NT 1163
- Solidarity, 1931-1932, lithographic crayon, NT 1229
- In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht, third and final version, 1920, woodcut, Kn 159
- The war years
- Waiting (Fear), 1914, Crayon lithograph (transfer of an unknown drawing on ribbed laid paper), Kn 132
- Tower of Mothers, 1937/1938, bronze, Seeler 35
- Soldiers’ Wives Waving Farewell, 1937/1938, bronze, Seeler 32
- Two Soldiers’ Wives, waiting, 1941-1943, bronze, Seeler 43
- »Seed for sowing should not be milled«, 1941, crayon lithograph, Kn 274
- The series »War«
- The war years – Works in the context of the series »War«
- Farewell and Death
- Lamentation, 1938-1941, bronze, Seeler 38
- Death, Woman and Child, 1910, black crayon, blotted, on brownish paper, NT 609
Farewell, 1910, charcoal, blotted, on Ingres paper, NT 616
Farewell, 1910, charcoal, blotted, on green-grey Ingres paper, NT 596
Death, Woman and Child, 1910, line etching, drypoint, sandpaper and vernis mou with imprint of laid paper and Ziegler's transfer paper, Kn 108 - Pietà (Mother with dead Son), 1937-1939, bronze, Seeler 37
- Woman in the Lap of Death, 1920/1921, woodcut, Kn 165
Death takes a Woman, 1921/1922, charcoal, black and brown crayon, blotted, on olive-brown laid paper, NT 885
Death takes a Woman, 1921, black crayon on blue laid paper, NT 884
Death takes a Woman, 1921, charcoal and black crayon on Ingres paper, NT 883 - Farewell, 1940/1941, bronze, Seeler 39
- The »Death« Series
- Last drawings
- Käthe Kollwitz - Biographical data of the artist
- Käthe Kollwitz - Biographical data of the artist
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