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Shown from the chest up in the bottom right quadrant of the composition, a person holds one arm straight up with the thumb and first two fingers extended as their hair blows back from their face in this vertical lithograph. On tan-colored paper, the person is printed in tones of gray, as if sketched in charcoal. The mouth is wide open and teeth visible. The person has high cheekbones, heavy, pointed brows, and straight hair. A garment is suggested with long strokes of gray. The hand not raised in the air rests on the person’s chest, and is cut off by the bottom edge of the print. Three large words are written behind the person in sharply defined letters: “Nie” at the top left, “wieder” above the person’s head, to our right of upraised arm, and “Krieg” near the person’s shoulder to our left. The first two words are each underlined once and the third word, “Krieg,” is underlined several times. An inscription is written across the left half of the bottom of the sheet: “Mitteldeutsher Jugendtag Leipzig 2.-4. August 1924.” The artist signed the work in the lower right corner, “Kollwitz.”

Käthe Kollwitz

Never Again War (Nie Wieder Krieg), 1924

Not on View

Medium

lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 94.4 x 71.4 cm (37 3/16 x 28 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard A. Simms

Catalogue Raisonné

Klipstein 1955, no. 200, State iii/iii

Accession Number

1992.2.1

Artists / Makers

Käthe Kollwitz (artist) German, 1867 - 1945

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Inscription

lower center in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz; across center in plate: Nie wieder Krieg; across bottom in plate: Mitteldeutsher Jugendtag / Leipzig 2.-4. August 1924; lower right in plate: Kollwitz

Provenance

Dr. Richard A. Simms, Harbor City, CA; gift 1992, to NGA

Associated Names

Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Exhibition History

1992: Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 90, reproduced p. 66.

1994: Three Berlin Artists of the Weimar Era: Hannah Höch, Käthe Kollwitz, Jeanne Mammen, Des Moines Art Center, 1994.

2015: The Krieg Cycle: Käthe Kollwitz and World War I, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA, 2015.

Bibliography

1955: Klipstein, August. The Graphic Work of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1955, no. 200, iii/iii.

1994: Three Berlin Artists of the Weimar Era: Hannah Hoch, Kathe Kollwitz, Jeanne Mammen. Exh. cat. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, 1994: pl.34.

2002: Knesebeck, Alexandra von dem. Käthe Kollwitz. Werkverzeichnis der Graphik. 2 vols. Bern: Kornfeld, 2002.