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Raped (Vergewaltigt)

Publisher Published by Emil Richter, Dresden German
1907, 2nd edition published 1921
Not on view
Raped is from Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War, a series of seven prints based on the brutality imposed by 16th century German nobility and the resultant revolts. Depicted is the scene of a violent crime; amid the lush vegetation and flowering forms is the semi-hidden body of an assaulted woman, her vulnerability emphasized by her exposed flesh and disheveled clothes. Behind her is a young girl, perhaps her child, who bows her head, echoing the surrounding sunflowers.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Raped (Vergewaltigt)
  • Artist: Käthe Kollwitz (German, Kaliningrad (Königsberg) 1867–1945 Moritzburg)
  • Publisher: Published by Emil Richter, Dresden
  • Date: 1907, 2nd edition published 1921
  • Medium: Etching and soft-ground etching with drypoint
  • Dimensions: Plate: 12 1/16 × 20 13/16 in. (30.6 × 52.8 cm)
    Sheet: 20 3/16 × 26 5/8 in. (51.3 × 67.7 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Museum accession, 1965
  • Object Number: 65.603bis
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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