THE COLLECTION
Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945)
Vienna Is Dying! Save Its Children! (Wien stirbt! Rettet seine Kinder!)
- Date:
- 1920
- Medium:
- Lithograph
- Dimensions:
- 37 3/16 x 22 1/16" (94.5 x 56 cm)
- Paper:
- Beige, smooth, wove.
- Publisher:
- Emil Richter, Dresden
- Printer:
- Hermann Birkholz, Berlin
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Reference:
- Knesebeck 148.
- MoMA Number:
- P133
- Themes:
- Death, Postwar Politics
- Techniques:
- Lithography
German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
March 27–July 11, 2011
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.