Throughout her life, Käthe Kollwitz was an attentive observer of scenes from everyday life, which she described in her diary and recorded in her drawings. These sketches served as a reservoir of ideas she would draw from in her later artistic practice, Mother and child depictions are a great part of this work process. In the 1920s, the consequences of the World War I were predominant in the art of Käthe Kollwitz. During the years of war she struggled for the perfect artistic technique to create the seven sheets of the war cycle according to her ideas. For the sixth sheet of the war series “Mothers” there is a discarded lithograph from 1919 and the final woodcut from 1921/22, in which the later sculpture “Tower of the Mothers” is already figuratively laid out. In order to draw attention to the social hardship and hunger of the children in the working families, Kollwitz created motifs for posters and inexpensive art editions.
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