Käthe Kollwitz
Tower of Mothers
1936-1937
Scroll
Käthe Kollwitz
Tower of Mothers
1936-1937
Physical Qualities
Zinc alloy, 11 x 11 1/2 x 10 in. (27.9 x 29.2 x 25.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Given in Memory of Joseph Katz by his Children
Object Number
1965.38.1
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1965; Leslie Katz, Ruth Katz, and Richard Katz, Brooklyn, by bequest, 1958; Joseph Katz, Baltimore, by purchase, 1952; Galerie St. Etienne, New York, by purchase, November 7, 1952; Klipstein (now, Galerie Kornfeld), Bern, Switzerland; Galerie Aenne Abels, Cologne
Käthe Kollwitz
Encounters with the 1930's
The Krieg Cycle: Kathe Kollwitz and World War I
Mother's Arms: Kathe Kollwitz's Women, and War
Käthe Kollwitz1
Stephanie Barron, "German Expressionist Sculpture," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1983, fig. 19, ill. p. 21.
Elizabeth Prelinger, "Käthe Kollwitz," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. and Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1992, cat. no. 106, ill. p. 64.
Inscribed: Inscribed along bottom edge: "Kollwitz"
Markings: Foundry mark, bottom back: "H. NOACK BERLIN"