Collection Art II
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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.
