Mutter mit totem Sohn

The sculpture was made in 1937 or 1938 and is dedicated to Kollwitz's son Peter [de], who died in the World War I. It follows from her work, Mourning Parents [de], which she completed between 1914 and 1932. A sculpture of Kollwitz's Pietà, enlarged four times by Harald Haacke, has been in the "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Victims of War and Tyranny" in Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Neue Wache since it was established in 1993. The original is hosted at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne.rote 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 knees. It is no longer pain, but reflection." [Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_with_her_Dead_Son)