Käthe Kollwitz, Study for The Mothers (plate 6 from War), 1921, brush and black ink and opaque white watercolor on paper that has been cut and pasted onto a larger sheet, 45.4 × 58.8 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Frederick Brown Fund.
« The greatest victim of our time is the woman. A triple burden weighs upon her—as an unemployed person, a woman, and a mother. »
- Hannah Hoch, for the exhibition "Women in Need," organized in Berlin in 1931 by the Internationale Arbeiterhilfe (International Workers' Aid).(Excerpt from the catalogue Graphic Art Collection - The Collection of the Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art, edited by Agnès de la Beaumelle, Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2008)















