Seed Grain Shall Not Be Milled
Seed Grain Shall Not Be Milled
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- Description
- Lithograph by Kaethe Kollwitz (1867-1945), pencil signed 'Kollwitz' at lower R. The title, Saatfrüchte Sollen Nicht Vermahlen Werden, is translated from German as "Seed Grain Shall Not Be Milled" or as "Grain for Sowing Shall Not Be Milled." It is a quotation from Goethe that Kollwitz originally used in a 1919 open letter protesting the continuation of World War I. This print, made in 1942, is a response to the Nazi edict that children were to be recruited for the German army.
- The lithograph is Kollwitz's last print, one of three known copies of this edition. The lithographic stone was destroyed in the 1943 bombing of Berlin, which partially damaged Kollwitz's studio. Kollwitz died two years later, days before the end of the war she so strongly opposed.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Date made
- 1942
- maker
- Kollwitz, Kaethe
- place made
- Germany: Berlin, Berlin
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18 1/2 in x 23 in; 46.99 cm x 58.42 cm
- ID Number
- GA.22069
- catalog number
- 22069
- accession number
- 265104
- subject
- Germany
- Children
- World War II
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- Communications
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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