Käthe Kollwitz
Seated Woman
Draft for rejected version of Not (Need), sheet 1 from the cycle Ein Weberaufstand (A Weavers’ Revolt)
circa 1894
Charcoal drawing
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin
This early sketch for what would later become the first sheet of the cycle A Weavers’ Revolt, entitled Need, makes it clear that Käthe Kollwitz wanted to focus on the misery of women and children from the outset in her artistic interpretation of the historical material.