About this artwork
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artist:Käthe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945) German
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title:Bewaffnung in einem Gewolbe [Arming in a Cellar]
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date created:1906; published 1921
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materials:Etching and soft ground on paper
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measurements:49.80 x 32.90 cm (paper 64.00 x 48.00 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1979
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accession number:GMA 2097
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Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz
Kollwitz was born in Königsberg, East Prussia and trained in Berlin and Munich. In 1891 she married a doctor and moved to a poor area of Berlin where she experienced poverty at first hand. Kollwitz's social and political views were integral to her art, which consists almost entirely of prints (...