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Artists›Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz

1867

WA-00013530

DrawingExpressionism

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

100

Works in Collection

157

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ142472

MoMA

Field Verification (4 fields)

1 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
BiographyAi Generated + Gallery Generic· 82%
NationalityArtsy· 85%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (4)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/kathe-kollwitz
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/kathe-kollwitz
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/3201
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artist Index
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%

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Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Drawing

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (100)

Ask the Women and Children Whom Hitler is Starving Whether Rationing Is Too Great a "Sacrifice"

1942 · Lithograph

55 3/4 x 39 13/16" (141.6 x 101.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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The Lamentation

1941 · Plaster and metallic paint

10 7/8 × 10 3/8 × 3 7/8" (27.6 × 26.4 × 9.8 cm)

11 × 11 1/2 × 10" (27.9 × 29.2 × 25.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait in Profile Toward Right (Selbstbildnis im Profil nach rechts)

1938 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 18 11/16 x 11 1/4" (47.4 x 28.5 cm); sheet: 25 5/16 x 19 1/16" (64.3 x 48.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Call of Death (Ruf des Todes), plate 8 from the series Death (Tod)

1937 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 15 1/2 x 14 7/16" (39.3 x 36.6 cm); sheet: 25 1/8 x 21 1/8" (63.8 x 53.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Maiden in the Lap of Death

1934 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 43.4 × 37.8 cm (17 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.); Sheet: 70.5 × 53.5 cm (27 13/16 × 21 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Clasping the Hand of Death , plate 1 of 8 from the set "Tod"

1934 · Lithograph on buff wove paper

458 × 393 mm (image): 703 × 535 mm (sheet)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Call of Death

1934 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 38 × 38.3 cm (15 × 15 1/8 in.); Sheet: 65.1 × 53.3 cm (25 11/16 × 21 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Death Attacks a Woman

1934 · Lithograph on cream wove paper

Image: 50.5 × 36.5 cm (19 15/16 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 64 × 52.7 cm (25 1/4 × 20 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Giving her Hand to Death

1934 · Lithograph on paper

66 × 50 cm (26 × 19 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Tod greift in Kinderschar (Death Seizes the Children), plate 3 from the series Tod (Death)

1934 · Lithograph

composition: 19 1/2 × 16 1/8" (49.5 × 41 cm); sheet: 27 3/4 × 21 3/4" (70.5 × 55.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Death Seizes the Children (Tod greift in Kinderschar)

1934 · Charcoal on paper

sheet (irreg.): 27 1/2 × 20 5/8" (69.9 × 52.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis)

1934 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 8 1/8 x 7 3/8" (20.6 x 18.7 cm); sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 5/8" (37.5 x 27 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Death Seizes the Children (Tod greift in Kinderschar), plate 3 from the series Death (Tod)

1934 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 19 3/4 x 16 1/4" (50.1 x 41.3 cm); sheet: 25 1/4 x 21 1/8" (64.2 x 53.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Woman Entrusts Herself to Death (Frau vertraut sich dem Tode an) from the series Death (Tod)

1934 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 18 x 15 5/16" (45.7 x 38.9 cm); sheet: 25 1/2 x 21 1/8" (64.7 x 53.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Death Seizes a Woman (Tod packt eine Frau), plate 4 from the series Death (Tod)

1934 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 19 15/16 x 14 1/2" (50.7 x 36.8 cm); sheet: 25 1/4 x 20 7/8" (64.1 x 53.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Young Girl in the Lap of Death (Tod hält Mädchen im Schoß) from the series Death (Tod)

1934 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 16 13/16 x 14 13/16" (42.7 x 37.7 cm); sheet (irreg.): 29 7/8 x 20 15/16" (75.9 x 53.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Death (Tod)

1934 · Five from a series of eight lithographs

composition (see child records): dimensions vary; sheet (each approx.): 26 3/16 x 21" (66.5 x 53.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Two Chatting Women with Two Children (Zwei schwatzende Frauen mit zwei Kindern)

1930 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 11 11/16 x 10 3/16" (29.7 x 25.8 cm); sheet: 19 3/4 x 14 1/8" (50.1 x 35.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Three Studies of a Child (verso)

1930 · black chalk or charcoal?

Sheet: 49.7 x 64.3 cm (19 9/16 x 25 5/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Mary and Elizabeth

1929 · Woodcut in black on cream Japanese paper

Sheet: 39.8 × 45 cm (15 11/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

1927 · Lithograph on dark handmade paper

Image: 32 × 29 cm (12 5/8 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 54 × 38 cm (21 5/16 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait in Profile

1927 · Lithograph on Japanese paper

Image: 41 × 35 cm (16 3/16 × 13 13/16 in.); Sheet: 64.2 × 45 cm (25 5/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Worker Woman with Sleeping Child (Arbeiterfrau mit schlafendem Jungen)

1927 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 15 3/8 x 13 1/8" (39.1 x 33.4 cm); sheet: 21 5/8 x 15 3/4" (55 x 40 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (6)

100 published of 150 catalogued · 126 with image

MoMA
50 publishedof 100 catalogued86 img
Art Institute Chicago
32 published32 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published4 img
The Met
7 published
Rijksmuseum
3 published3 img
Nga
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 6)

6 entries · 1 sources

Zelfportret aan tafel
1893 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Losbruch
1898 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Proletariat: No. 1 Out of Work
1925 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Pregnant Woman Contemplating Suicide (recto)
1921 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Pregnant Woman Contemplating Suicide (recto) Three Studies of a Child (verso)
1921 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Woman with Folded Arms
1905 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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