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German artist Käthe Kollwitz created this powerful etching in 1903 as part of her Peasants' War series. The central figure, known as Black Anna, faces away from the viewer, arms raised, propelling a surge of rebels forward. Her body tilts with the force of radical momentum.
The series depicts the German peasant uprising of 1522-25. Kollwitz chose to show the woman from behind, universalizing her as a symbol of righteous anger. This print won the Villa Romana Prize, funding a year's stay in Florence. It exemplifies Expressionist printmaking at its most emotionally powerful.

Ancient Celtic (Unknown), 625
British Museum, London

Leonardo da Vinci
British Museum, London

John Singer Sargent
British Museum, London

Ancient Greek (Unknown), -350
British Museum, London
Other masterpieces from the Expressionism movement

Edvard Munch, 1886
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

Edvard Munch, 1894
Munch Museum, Oslo

Edvard Munch, 1893
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

Edvard Munch, 1894
Munch Museum, Oslo

Pablo Picasso, 1937
Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid

Franz Marc, 1911
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis

Franz Marc, 1913
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

August Macke, 1913
Lenbachhaus, Munich
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