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Family Group, c 1928

Käthe Kollwitz, Family Group, c 1928, charcoal, stumped, on Ingres paper, 515 x 482 mm, NT 1184, Kollwitz Museum Köln, Inv. Nr. 70200/02030.
Käthe Kollwitz, Family Group, c 1928, charcoal, stumped, on Ingres paper, 515 x 482 mm, NT 1184, Kollwitz Museum Köln, Inv. Nr. 70200/02030.

In this drawing, Käthe Kollwitz portrayed a family group in two moving scenes evoking an atmosphere of mutual confidence and trust. The drawing is evidently a spontaneous observation of an everyday situation the motif of which is reminiscent of the lithograph »Parents with Child« (Kn 254).

In a letter to Hanna Löhnberg, a young fellow-painter, Käthe Kollwitz wrote in 1929:

You cannot but smile back when a child smiles at you. This stream of love – not suppressed, but shown with great delight – to the child and back from the child, this is pure bliss.« 

Käthe Kollwitz, Letters of Friendship

Contextual Works

Käthe Kollwitz, Parents with Child, final version, 1931, crayon lithograph (transfer), 225 x 315 mm, Kn 254 a, Kollwitz Museum Köln, Inv. Nr. 70300/86053.
Käthe Kollwitz, Parents with Child, final version, 1931, crayon lithograph (transfer), 225 x 315 mm, Kn 254 a, Kollwitz Museum Köln, Inv. Nr. 70300/86053.
Käthe Kollwitz, Joy of Motherhood, c 1929, charcoal on firm white paper NT (1184a), 324 x 225 mm, NT (1184a), Kollwitz Museum Köln, Inv. Nr. 70200/11013.
Käthe Kollwitz, Joy of Motherhood, c 1929, charcoal on firm white paper NT (1184a), 324 x 225 mm, NT (1184a), Kollwitz Museum Köln, Inv. Nr. 70200/11013.