This and other of Kollwitz's posters of the early 1920s are impassioned pleas to help those suffering the most severely from postwar food shortages, unemployment, and inflation. Here a skeletal figure of Death, representing starvation in Austria, lashes its whip at children.
Gallery label from German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, March 27–July 11, 2011.
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Posters by Painters and Sculptors
Mar 4–May 11, 1952
3 other works identified
The Artist as Adversary
Jul 1–Sep 27, 1971
8 other works identified
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
Mar 27–Jul 11, 2011
8 other works identified
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
Mar 27–Jul 11, 2011
5 other works identified
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
Mar 27–Jul 11, 2011
8 other works identified
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
Mar 27–Jul 11, 2011
6 other works identified
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
Mar 27–Jul 11, 2011
13 other works identified
Designing Modern Women 1890–1990
Oct 5, 2013–Oct 19, 2014
12 other works identified
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