Original etching, aquatint, and soft ground printed in brown-black ink on wove paper backed with Japon. Hand signed and titled in pencil in lower right, "Käthe Kollwitz, Bauernkrieg Bl. 5". With date, medium and artist's name engraved in the plate, lower right: "1921 Original radierung von Kathe Kollwitz". Also with signature and date etched in plate, lower right: "Kollwitz 1902". Also signed by Felsing in pencil, at the platemark line, lower left. Printed by Felsing and published by Emil Richter, 1921. An impression of Knesebeck's eleventh state out of thirteen. Plate five of seven from the cycle "Bauernkreig" (Peasants' War). In good condition, framed with conservation materials.

Platemark: 19 1/2 x 23"; Sheet size: 22 3/16" x 26 5/16"; Framed size: 32 11/16" x 37 1/4"

Catalogue reference: Klipstein 66 XI/ XI, Knesebeck 70 XI/ XIII

Between 1902 and 1908, Kollwitz completed her second major print cycle, depicting the German Peasants' War of 1525. The etchings concern an incident that occurred in 1525, in which a single woman, "Black Anna," inspired the peasants to revolt against the injustices done to them. The peasants had no land of their own, no money to pay the excessive taxes, and no civil rights to protect them. As a child, Kollwitz was so taken with the story of the "Peasants’ War" that she and her older brother Konrad pretended to be peasant revolutionaries.