Die Pfluger (The Ploughmen)

Käthe Kollwitz

1867–1945

Die Pfluger (The Ploughmen), 1906

Portfolio/Series title: Bauernkrieg (Peasants' War)

Where object was made: Germany

Material/technique: etching; aquatint

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 305 x 448 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 435 x 582 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 12 1/2 x 17 5/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 17 1/8 x 22 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in

Credit line: Gift of Ernest J. Bubieniec

Accession number: 1976.0085

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Exhibition Label:
"Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard
With A Weavers Rebellion (also exhibited here), The Peasants’ War was one of Kollwitz’s most important print series dealing with oppression. Die Pflüger, which shows peasants who have harnessed themselves to their plow, was intended as the first print in the series. The title of the series, Bauernkrieg, makes an intentional reference to the historical uprising of the peasantry in Germany in 1525. Chinese artist Li Yitai included Kollwitz’s print “Black Anna” from The Peasants’ War series in his Portrait of Lu Xun exhibited here, giving testimony to Kollwitz’s importance to radical printmakers around the globe.