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Arbeiter Frau mit Schlafendem Jungen (Worker Mother with Sleeping Boy)

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Image depicts a mother holding her son as they rest on a seat. The young boy leans into the women, and she hold his hand.

2026.09.156

Lithograph

inkPaper

2026.09

Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

Transfer

Kathe Kollwitz

Artist

J.J. Ottens Verlag

1927

20th Century

Berlin

Germany

100

97

100 (30 numbered on Japan paper and 70 numbered on wove paper); plus unnumbered proofs on Japan paper and wove paper. 2nd edition published in 1931 with in plate signature. Edition number noted in lower left below plate

Print number and run

lower left below plate

97

PencilWritten

Signature

lower right below plate

Kathe Kollwitz

PencilWritten

Inscription

lower right corner

49

PencilWritten

Inscription

lower left recto

Yeleka K7

PenWritten

Sheet

26-3/4 in

19-3/4 in

Image

15-1/2 in

13 in

https://nmwa.org/art/artists/kathe-kollwitz/

Professors Edward Akeley (1894-1984) and Anna Akeley (1904-2004), West Lafayette, Indiana; donated to Purdue University Archives; transferred to Purdue University Galleries

Arbeiter Frau mit Schlafendem Jungen (Worker Mother with Sleeping Boy) picture number 1