Two small children grab at the dress and apron strings of a woman with her face turned away.
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Dark shaded lines show a cluster of three figures against a blank background. A woman whose back is turned away from us appears to hold her bowed head in her hand. A small child at her right grabs at her apron string with one hand and bites into something the woman holds out in her hand. At her left another small child clutches at her dress and looks up at the woman with a desperate expression. Below the figures, across the bottom margin is the hand written word “brot!”.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.11.4
People
Käthe Kollwitz, German (Königsberg, East Prussia 1867 - 1945 Moritzburg, Germany)
Title
Bread!, from the portfolio "Hunger"
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Hunger
Original Language Title: Brot!, aus "Hunger"
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1924
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/76745

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 34 x 24 cm (13 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library
Copyright
© Estate of Käthe Kollwitz, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.11.4
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/15/2018 - 08/05/2019

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