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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. Faintly drawn words in the background are difficult to make out. Small in scale, several clusters of zigzagging lines are in the lower left corner. The artist signed the work in the lower right corner, “Kollwitz.”

Käthe Kollwitz

Never Again War (Nie Wieder Krieg), 1924

Not on View

Medium

crayon lithograph on thin wove paper with touches of charcoal and tusche applied by hand

Dimensions

sheet: 97.3 x 74.8 cm (38 5/16 x 29 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagel 1972, no. 1039

Accession Number

1943.3.5213

Artists / Makers

Käthe Kollwitz (artist) German, 1867 - 1945

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Kollwitz; lower right in lithograph crayon: Kollwitz; across center faintly in charcoal: Nie Wieder Krieg

Provenance

(Carlen Galleries, Philadelphia); purchased 1943 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1992: Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 91, reproduced p. 165.

Bibliography

1972: Nagel, Otto. The Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne; Crown Publishers, 1972.

1993: The American Heritage College Dictionary. 3rd edition. Boston and New York, 1993: reproduced p. 484.