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Killed in Battle, 1921 by Käthe Kollwitz

Killed in Battle,
Lithograph, 1921, by Käthe Kollwitz

Killed in Battle, 1921

A reminiscence of her younger son, Peter, killed on the Western Front in 1914. He was eighteen.

The work commemorates the victims of all wars, in terms of the human suffering and deprivation of the survivors.

At the level of common folk, war has no victors.