Deutschlands Kinder hungern! (Germany's Children are Starving!)
Käthe Kollwitz, Deutschlands Kinder hungern! (Germany's Children are Starving!), 1924, lithograph on cream wove paper, The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection, © artist or other rights holder, 85.14.365
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- Title
Deutschlands Kinder hungern! (Germany's Children are Starving!)
- Related Titles
original language: Deutschlands Kinder hungern!
translated: Germany's Children are Starving!
- Artist
- Date
1924
- Medium
lithograph on cream wove paper
- Edition
edition size unknown
- Catalogue Raisonné
Klipstein 190
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 17 in x 11 1/4 in; sheet: 21 1/8 in x 15 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: Kollwitz / Kollwitz, printed and graphite, lower left
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
planographic print
- Culture
German
- Credit Line
The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection
- Accession Number
85.14.365
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
The 1920s were a time of desperate poverty and hunger in Germany due to rampant inflation. Here, supplicating children raise their bowls in hopes of a meal. This image was commissioned as a poster for the Internationale Arbeiterhilfe (International Workers' Welfare Organization), and was later reissued as a print without text, seen here.
- Exhibitions
2014 Feast and Famine: The Pleasures and Politics of Food Portland Art Museum
