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Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics. This exhibition closed on March 13, 2020, as part of Getty's measures against the coronavirus (COVID-19). Käthe Kollwitz, one of the foremost graphic artists of the 20th century, is celebrated for her affecting portrayals of the hardships of war, poverty, and injustice and for her technical virtuosity.
Käthe Kollwitz. German Printmaker and Sculptor. Born: July 8, 1867 - Königsberg, East Prussia. Died: April 22, 1945 - Moritzburg, Germany. Movements and Styles: Expressionism. "At such moments, when I know I am working with an international society opposed to war, I am filled with a warm sense of contentment."
Käthe Kollwitz, née Schmidt (German pronunciation: [kɛːtə kɔlvɪt͡s]), (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist, who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger, and ...
Käthe Kollwitz – Her artistic work. Käthe Kollwitz’s complete works include thousands of drawings, almost 300 prints and posters, and about 40 sculptural works. She dealt exclusively with the representation of people, depicting their hardship and joy in a distinctive visual language. In her early work, Käthe Kollwitz was inspired by ...
Hace 3 días · Käthe Kollwitz. German, 1867–1945. Starr Figura, German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Printmaker, draftsman, sculptor. Trained initially as a painter, but by 1890 turned to printmaking as means for social criticism. Married to a physician to proletarian families in Berlin, felt deep admiration ...
Käthe Kollwitz. Raised in a politically progressive middle-class family, Kollwitz enjoyed family support for her artistic ambitions. When she became engaged to a medical student in 1889, her father even sent her to study in Munich to persuade her to choose art over marriage. Following graduation, she returned to Berlin to marry her fiancé ...
In de oorlogsjaren 1914-1918 begon ze met beeldhouwen. Op 23 oktober 1914 stierf haar 17-jarige zoon Peter Kollwitz, musketier in het Duitse leger, bij een aanval op Diksmuide in Vlaanderen. In april 1915 begon Käthe aan de uitwerking van de eerste plannen voor een gedenksteen voor het graf van haar zoon Peter en na 1919 beeldde zij vooral de ...
