Woman with Dead Child

{{Short description|1903 etching by Käthe Kollwitz}}

Woman With Dead Child is a 1903 etching by Käthe Kollwitz. Its subject was influenced by her experiences in an underserved sector of Berlin as a physician's wife where disease and infant mortality rate were high.{{Cite web |date=October 18, 2023 |title=Käthe Kollwitz. Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind). 1903 |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/273959 |access-date=October 18, 2023 |website=www.moma.org}} The image is often considered as Käthe Kollwitz's most famous depiction of war.{{Cite web |last=Skye Sherwin |first=Skye Sherwin |date=September 13, 2017 |title=Käthe Kollwitz: Portrait of the Artist review – a brooding tableau of trauma |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/13/kathe-kollwitz-portrait-of-the-artist-review-ikon-gallery-birmingham |access-date=October 18, 2023 |website=The Guardian}}

{{Infobox artwork

| title = Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind)

| image = File:Kollwitz.jpg

| caption =

| artist = Käthe Kollwitz

| year = {{start date|1903}}

| medium = etching

| movement = Expressionism

| height_metric = 54.5

| width_metric = 70.3

}}

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The picture depicts a mother holding her child between the thighs. Her mouth is fixed on its chest in an effort to suck her child back inside her.{{Cite web |last=Sherwin |first=Skye |date=September 13, 2017 |title=Käthe Kollwitz: Portrait of the Artist review – a brooding tableau of trauma |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/13/kathe-kollwitz-portrait-of-the-artist-review-ikon-gallery-birmingham |access-date=October 18, 2023 |website=The Guardian}}

The artist used herself and her seven-year-old son Peter as models for this composition.{{Cite web |title=Woman with dead Child, 1903 |url=https://www.kollwitz.de/en/woman-with-dead-child-kn-81 |access-date=October 18, 2023 |website=Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln}}

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Category:Etching

Category:German Expressionism

Category:German women painters