German Historical Museum
Two waiting soldiers' women
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- Title: Two waiting soldiers' women
- Artist: Käthe Kollwitz (1867 Königsberg - 1945 Moritzburg bei Dresden)
- Date: 1943
- Material/Technique: Bronze patinated
- Size: H:23; B:24; T:20,5 cm
The enormous misery, deprivation, and sacrifice suffered during World War II were at no time reduced to soldiers at the front. The National Socialist regime followed a propaganda policy of celebrating the deaths of soldiers as heroic deeds; individual sorrow was considered undesirable. Kollwitz's sculpture from 1943 is a compassionate expression of the pain of mothers and wives during the war. Resignation and silent grief can be read on the faces of the two women depicted. The future has no place here.
