Around this time, German politics were polarized between communism and fascism. Kollwitz produced many more lithographs and prints that became posters that supported socialism and movements that dealt with anti-war. This leads me to another famous print I would like to discuss, Never Again War!, which was created in 1924. This was Käthe Kollwitz’s most widely produced print (Skrapits 58). This print depicted an individual with one hand stretched out into the sky shouting, “Nie wieder krieg!” (which translates to Never Again War!) with the other hand placed on the chest holding onto the heart. This gesture symbolized how somebody would take an oath in German. I feel Kollwitz print displayed a more positive attitude toward a society that was against war and the brutalities that came along with it. People around this time needed works like this to lift up their spirits, but sadly and ironically millions of German’s made the same gesture to swear this same oath to Adolf Hitler himself (Skrapits
Around this time, German politics were polarized between communism and fascism. Kollwitz produced many more lithographs and prints that became posters that supported socialism and movements that dealt with anti-war. This leads me to another famous print I would like to discuss, Never Again War!, which was created in 1924. This was Käthe Kollwitz’s most widely produced print (Skrapits 58). This print depicted an individual with one hand stretched out into the sky shouting, “Nie wieder krieg!” (which translates to Never Again War!) with the other hand placed on the chest holding onto the heart. This gesture symbolized how somebody would take an oath in German. I feel Kollwitz print displayed a more positive attitude toward a society that was against war and the brutalities that came along with it. People around this time needed works like this to lift up their spirits, but sadly and ironically millions of German’s made the same gesture to swear this same oath to Adolf Hitler himself (Skrapits