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Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class. Her early work was realistic, but became freer in later years. Kollwitz was the first woman not only to be elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts but also to receive honora…
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culture · German artist (1867–1945) · printmaker · draftsperson · lithographer · poster artist · illustrator · sculptor · autobiographer · designer · graphic artist · painter · also Käthe Kollwitz, Kathe Kollwitz, Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, Käthe née Schmidt, Kaethe Kollwitz, Kėte Kolʹvit︠s︡
Born 8 July 1867 · Died 22 April 1945 · Q142472
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The working-class woman shows me much more than the ladies who are totally limited by conventional behavior. The working-class woman shows me her hands, her feet, and her hair. She lets me see the shape and form of her body through her clothes. She presents herself and the expression of her feelings openly, without disguises.
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My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Forbes: Käthe Kollwitz’ Timeless Vision Of Suffering And Rebellion On View In Indianapolis
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2024· 4 entries
Hyperallergic: Käthe Kollwitz’s Profoundly Human Art
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The Washington Post: Käthe Kollwitz: She served her country better than any man
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Käthe Kollwitz’ Review: Despair and Defiance at MoMA
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Vogue: In Dark Times, Käthe Kollwitz’s Raw Prints Burn Bright
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2022· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: Käthe Kollwitz: Unvarnished and Uncompromising
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2017· 3 entries
The Forward: Why Käthe Kollwitz’s Art Remains Shockingly Resonant 150 Years Later
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Artnet: Why Käthe Kollwitz, an Icon of German Modern Art, Is Still So Controversial on Her 150th Anniversary
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Google Doodle marked Kollwitz's 150th birthday
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2014· 1 entry
The Dallas Museum of Art exhibited, Käthe Kollwitz: A Social Activist in the Era of World War I
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2012· 1 entry
An exhibition of her work was curated for the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota by the art historian Corinna Kirsch
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1993· 1 entry
At the center of Neue Wache in Berlin, which serves as a monument to "the Victims of War and Tyranny"
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1986· 1 entry
A DEFA film Käthe Kollwitz, about the artist was made with Jutta Wachowiak as Kollwitz
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1945· 3 entries
Died 1945-04-22.
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“The working-class woman shows me much more than the ladies who are totally limited by conventional behavior. The working-class woman shows me her hands, her feet, and her hair. She lets me see the shape and form of her body through her clothes. She presents herself and the expression of her feelings openly, without disguises.”
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“My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.”
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1942· 2 entries
Made a piece by the same name, this time in reaction to World War II
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The Contemporary Art Society of Australia mounted its "Anti-Fascist Exhibition" displaying two lithographs and etchings by Kollwitz and including in the catalogue a print of her 1919 lithograph "The Mothers"
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1936· 1 entry
“They give themselves with jubilation; they give themselves like a bright, pure flame ascending straight to heaven.”
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1933· 2 entries
The Nazi government forced her to resign from this position
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After the establishment of the National-Socialist regime, the Nazi Party authorities forced her to resign her place on the faculty of the Akademie der Künste following her support of the Dringender Appell
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1928· 1 entry
Was also named director of the Master Class for Graphic Arts at the Prussian Academy
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1924· 1 entry
Finished her three most famous posters: Germany's Children Starving, Bread, and Never Again War ("Nie Wieder Krieg")
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1919· 1 entry
Kollwitz was appointed to the position of professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts, the first woman to hold that position
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1918· 1 entry
Kollwitz wrote an impassioned letter to the newspaper he published his call in, stating that there should be no more war, and that "seed corn must not be ground" in reference to young soldiers who were dying in the war
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1917· 1 entry
On her 50th birthday, the galleries of Paul Cassirer provided a retrospective exhibition of one hundred and fifty drawings by Kollwitz
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1906· 1 entry
Awarded Villa Romana Prize (1906).
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1892· 1 entry
And Peter in 1896 – Kollwitz saw a performance of Gerhart Hauptmann's The Weavers, which dramatized the oppression of the Silesian weavers in Langenbielau and their failed revolt in 1844
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1891· 1 entry
Kollwitz married Karl, who by this time was a doctor tending to the poor in Berlin
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1890· 1 entry
Returned to Königsberg, rented her first studio, and continued to depict the harsh labors of the working class
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-07-08.
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