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Death is recognized as Friend,
Sheet 6 of the series »Death«, 1937

Käthe Kollwitz,Death is recognized as Friend, sheet 6 of the series »Death«, 1937, crayon lithograph, 315 x 328 mm, Kn 271 b, Kollwitz Museum Köln, Inv. Nr. 70300/89023. 
Käthe Kollwitz,Death is recognized as Friend, sheet 6 of the series »Death«, 1937, crayon lithograph, 315 x 328 mm, Kn 271 b, Kollwitz Museum Köln, Inv. Nr. 70300/89023. 

This sixth sheet of the series does not show the face of Death either. The observer only sees the back of a tall figure. What is visible, is the face of the dying man who joyfully greets Death as a friend and puts his hand around the figure’s head. 

The man’s eyes show that Death has come as a release. As in the figure in »Death on the Road«, sheet 5 of the series, the face of the dying man resembles that of a skull.