Woman with Folded Hands, 1898
Käthe Kollwitzexpand_more
Etching, before steel facing of the plateexpand_more
Gift of Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrisonexpand_more 2023.57.6
Not on Viewexpand_more
Kollwitz spent the mid-1890s working on a cycle of etchings and lithographs called "A Weavers' Revolt" or simply "The Weavers," inspired by a play by Gerhart Hauptmann about an 1844 uprising of weavers in Silesia, first performed in 1893. In the process, she made and then rejected many drawings and prints, favoring the most dramatic for inclusion among the six finally published as a portfolio. "Woman with Folded Hands" was one of those set aside, probably because it was too quiet and non-narrative for the portfolio. The etching is nonetheless a quietly powerful invocation of a woman in despair and proved successful as an independent work of art.
Details
- Title
- Woman with Folded Hands
- Artist Life
- 1867–1945
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2023.57.6
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Klipstein 41 iiia
- Curator Approved
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