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Käthe Kollwitz: Bauernkrieg/Peasant War
September 4, 2018
An event every day that begins at 12:00 am, repeating until December 9, 2018
From 1903 to 1908, Käthe Kollwitz created plates for Bauernkrieg/Peasant War, a series of etchings that represent the brutal treatment of peasants in sixteenth-century Germany, their rise to revolution and battle, and their subsequent humiliation and death. Although based on historic events, she used this series as a vehicle to criticize and protest the anticipated tragedies that unfolded across Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. Kollwitz has been, for over a century, a major influence on print and media artists, both for her political commentary and her printmaking technique.