Proletariat: Erwerbslos Proletariat: Unemployed

by Käthe Kollwitz

$8,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Signed

The great unemployment during Germany's inflationary years after WWI prompted Käthe Kollwitz, a master of social protest art, to represent the plight of Weimar's workers. A numbered, signed woodcut on Japan paper in fine condition. In Erwerbslos, Kollwitz shows a child with a spoon in his hand, his eyes wide open, behind him are the faces of his parents in the shadows, his father gaunt and eyeless, with his hand around his neck, and a window cutout on the left.

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