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![Image of Helft Russland [Help Russia]](/Media/images/ART New/1999/1999.2.jpg)
Helft Russland [Help Russia]
192120th century
49.9 cm x 64.7 cm (19 5/8 in. x 25 1/2 in.)
Käthe Kollwitz (Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), 1867 - 1945, Mortizburg, Germany) Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, German
Medium and Support:
Lithograph
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Karen G. and Dr. Elgin W. Ware, Jr. Collection, 1999
Accession Number:
1999.2
Kollwitz designed this image for a poster appealing for aid to famine relief efforts in the struggling new nation, the Soviet Union. The composition, with the emaciated young man with helping hands reaching toward him, makes her plea explicit. In the years following World War I, Kollwitz created many such prints to aid with the relief of countless victims of post-war hunger, unemployment, and poverty by using posters to draw attention to their plight. While Kollwitz did not align herself with any radical political groups, she was always outspoken in her support of the rights of people of all nations.
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