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Käthe Kollwitz favored printmaking because she saw it as a democratic medium, affordable and capable of reaching all social classes. In prints such as this portrait of a female worker, she depicted Berlin’s most disenfranchised inhabitants. The sitter’s direct gaze and exhausted pose suggest not only her difficult living and working conditions but also her dignity.
Germany, 20th century
color lithograph
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Käthe Kollwitz's husband was a doctor who treated the working poor in Berlin, giving her firsthand experience with their struggles.
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
Austria, Vienna
porcelain
Overall: 5.9 x 6.1 cm (2 5/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson
Small and portable, these jugs have been found throughout the lands surrounding Cyprus. Called Black-on-Red Ware, this attractive ceramic type comprises mostly small jugs. The red-brown slip has a polished, lustrous surface with simple geometric designs painted in black. The decoration of this pottery follows the "circle" style of the Bichrome Ware jugs.
Cypriot
8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
medium: Ceramics
culture: Cypriot
Walters Art Museum, 1973, by purchase.