Original etching, drypoint and soft ground in brown-violet ink on soft Velin paper. A post-humous impression from state Xb/Xb according to Knesebeck. From the von der Becke edition between 1963/1965 and 1972, with von der Becke's embossed Munich seal, lower right margin. Plate 7, the final image from the series "Bauernkrieg" (Peasant's War). In excellent condition, framed with conservation materials.

Image size: 12 3/4" x 16 3/4"
Catalogue reference: Knesebeck Xb/Xb; Klipstein 98

This 1908 print is the last completed work of the "Peasants’ War" cycle. Kollwitz portrays the anti-climactic ending with the defeated peasant men herded together, awaiting torture and execution. This image is haunting in that it is possible to see how history repeats itself. The prisoners in this image could depict the Nazis’ captives being herded into concentration camps only thirty years later.