Käthe Kollwitz is an artist’s artist. There’s a chance you’ll recognize some of her more famous works without knowing her name, but her influence on 20th-century socially and politically critical art ...
I’m not sure it’s possible to glance at a Käthe Kollwitz print without feeling something. Kollwitz’s subjects, mostly women, carry a world of agony, resistance, and love in their carefully etched ...
Why Käthe Kollwitz, an Icon of German Modern Art, Is Still So Controversial on Her 150th Anniversary
There aren’t many artists whose work can spark vehement political debate half a century after their death; Käthe Kollwitz, one of Germany’s most important artists of the early 20th century, has earned ...
On my only trip to Berlin, in 2019, I saw a lot of Käthe Kollwitz. I walked through Kollwitzstrasse and Kollwitzplatz, near the site of her home, in Prenzlauer Berg. At the Staatliche Museen and at ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945), 'Mother with Dead Child,' 1903, printed ...
WELLESLEY — Pain is cruelly isolating. No one but the sufferer can truly understand it. But certain people — and of course, they are always the people who have been through it themselves — have a ...
When a Jewish businessman in Cologne, Germany, named Franz Levy died in 1937, his family commissioned the renowned German artist Käthe Kollwitz to design his gravestone. Kollwitz, who was not Jewish, ...
Three recently identified artworks by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz, missing since the end of World War II, are being returned to the Kupferstich-Kabinett, the prints collection in Dresden. The ...
The powerful work of German artist Käthe Kollwitz, including “Woman With Dead Child” from 1903, is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (Digital Media Department/Yale University Art ...
Because of their generally small size and relative insubstantiality, prints and drawings are easily upstaged when displayed alongside paintings and sculptures. So it was bold of the Museum of Modern ...
IN THE PRENZLAUER Berg district in Berlin are a school, a museum and a neighbourhood named in Käthe Kollwitz’s honour. She was an accomplished painter and draughtswoman as well as a prolific ...
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