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Hans Kollwitz (14 May 1892 – 22 September 1971) was a German epidemiologist, eldest son of artist Käthe Kollwitz. He obtained his degree in medicine and psychotherapy in 1928. He was also a World War I veteran, in which he voluntarily served, after joining from the German Youth Movement where he was a Wandervogel. Biography
After the death of his father Hans Kollwitz (1892-1971) he has chaired the community of heirs of the Kollwitz estate. Käthe Kollwitz signed a petition for the release of the Russian social revolutionary Maria Alexandrovna Spiridovna (1884-1941) who had been taken into custody and banned.
- Childhood, Youth and Education
- On The Path to Success
- The Happy Decade
- War Years
- New Beginnings and Changes - The Weimar Republic
- Birthday – at The Height of Her Fame
- Life and Work in The Third Reich
- The Last Decade
1887–1888 Käthe Schmidt returned to Königsberg and had lessons with the painter Emil Neide (1843–1908). This painter of historical subjects, genre paintings and portraits from Königsberg was held in great esteem as a history painter in East Prussia. He was involved in the decoration of the auditorium of Königsberg University and the assembly halls ...
1893 Swayed by the premiere of the naturalistic drama »Die Weber« (The Weavers) by Gerhart Hauptmann, which was based on the food riots of Silesian weavers in 1844, Käthe Kollwitz decided to abandon the cycle on »Germinal« and began work on her first complete graphic cycle »Ein Weberaufstand« (A Weavers’ Revolt) that she finished in 1897. 1896 Draw...
1902 The Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (Print Room) started to acquire prints by Käthe Kollwitz. During the artist’s lifetime, the print rooms in Berlin and Dresden established the largest public Kollwitz collections in Germany. The New York Public Librarywas the first public collection in the US to acquire her prints. 1903 Max Lehrs (1855–1938) publi...
1918 In an open letter, published on 28 October 1918 in the »Vorwärts« magazine and on 30 October 1918 in the »Vossische Zeitung«, Käthe Kollwitz courageously countered Richard Dehmel’s call for a final war effort. The letter was rapidly disseminated and closed with a quote from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre: »Seeds for sowing should not be g...
1921 Birth of Kollwitz’ first grandson, Peter. His parents, Hans Kollwitz and Ottilie Ehlers-Kollwitz, named him after the younger son of the artist who fell in the First World War in 1914. Peter himself was drafted in 1940 and fell on 22 September 1942 on the eastern front near Rzhev. Until 1924 Kollwitz, together with other intellectuals from aro...
1928–1932 Käthe Kollwitz was entrusted with the directorship of the masterclass for graphic art at the Prussian Academy of Artin Berlin and was given two large workrooms at the academy’s venue in Hardenbergstrasse. 1929 Käthe Kollwitz was the first woman to be awarded the order Pour le Mérite for Science and Art on 29 May 1929. Together with the Be...
Like many communists and social democrats, Käthe and Karl Kollwitz went to Czechoslovakia in March because they feared that they would be arrested. After a few weeks, however, the couple returned to Berlin. In July 1933, Karl Kollwitz lost his licence to practice as a panel doctor. His protests were, however, successful and in October he and other ...
1937 As part of the campaign »Entartete Kunst« (Degenerate art), works by Kollwitz were confiscated in at least eleven German museums. The works were either sold, exchanged or deposited with the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (propaganda ministry) as consignment stock. The art dealers Bernhard A. Böhmer, Karl Buchholz and Hild...
Kollwitz continually transformed one of the most frequently encountered motifs in the history of European art – the mother with a child – into new, modernist pictorial conceptions. She depicts bodies in intimate embraces, in intense contact with one another, conveying the ‘boundary situation’ that motherhood can be.
Käthe Kollwitz (German pronunciation: [kɛːtə kɔlvɪt͡s] born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture.
1. EIN ZIEL. VOR AUGEN. Der Blick auf das Selbst – bei Kollwitz alles andere als eine Seltenheit. Ihre zahlreichen Selbstbildnisse zeugen von einer tiefen Entschlossenheit – als Frau das Neue wagen, einen Platz als Künstlerin erobern! Käthe Kollwitz, Selbstbildnis, um 1888.
27 de mar. de 2024 · Käthe Kollwitz fue artista, pacifista y feminista. Su papel como pacifista y artista comprometida políticamente sin duda tiene mucho que ver. Pero Kollwitz también parece muy moderna como feminista y, en general, como una mujer fuerte y poco convencional.
