Ploughers, etching and aquatint, 1906, by Käthe Kollwitz
Battlefield, etching, 1907 by Käthe Kollwitz |
THE PEASANT WAR, seven-plate cycle, 1903-08 The Plougher of her Peasant War series symbolises the oppressed of every age. Not the man behind the plough, but reduced to pulling it himself, he is a virtual beast of burden, yoked to the plough. Käthe Kollwitz was commissioned to commemorate the sixteenth century uprising of German peasants, beginning with the causes of their discontent. |
