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On the anniversary of the death of her son Peter, who died in 1914, Kollwitz wrote in her diary in 1937, "I am working on the small sculpture that arose from the plastic attempt to make the elderly. It has now become something of a pietà. The mother is sitting with the dead son on her lap between her
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differs from classic Pietà representations in that the dead son does not rest on his mother's knees, but rather lies crouching on the ground between her legs. He is embraced by the figure of the mother and looks more like a child seeking protection in his mother's lap.
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of Kollwitz should be chosen for the memorial sparked a heated debate. Kohl was accused from various quarters that a mother grieving for her son did not do justice to the victims of the
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Enlarged version of Käthe Kollwitz's sculpture Mother with her Dead Son (Pietà) in the Neue Wache on the Unter Den Linden in Berlin.
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The sculpture was made in 1937 or 1938 and is dedicated to Kollwitz's son
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since it was established in 1993. The original is hosted at the
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Käthe Kollwitz
Berlin
German
Pietà
Käthe Kollwitz
Peter
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World War I
Mourning Parents
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Harald Haacke
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel's
Neue Wache
Käthe Kollwitz Museum
Cologne
Today's interior of the Neue Wache with Käthe Kollwitz's statue Mother with her dead son
Helmut Kohl

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