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Käthe Kollwitz (German pronunciation: [kɛːtə kɔlvɪt͡s] born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) [3] 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 ...
Woman With Dead Child is a 1903 etching by Käthe Kollwitz. Its subject was influenced by her experiences in an underserved sector of Berlin as a physician's wife where disease and infant mortality rate were high. [1] The image is often considered as Käthe Kollwitz's most famous depiction of war. [2] Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind ...
History. The sculpture was made in 1937 or 1938 and is dedicated to Kollwitz's son Peter [de], who was killed in action in 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 [de], has been in the "Central Memorial of the ...
Käthe Kollwitz House (Moritzburg) Coordinates: 51°09′58″N 13°40′29″E. Käthe-Kollwitz-Haus. The Käthe Kollwitz House (German: Käthe-Kollwitz-Haus) in Moritzburg, Saxony, is one of three museums in Germany dedicated to the artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867—1945), the other two being the Käthe Kollwitz Museums in Cologne and Berlin.
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln was founded in 1985 on the occasion of the first presentation of the Käthe Kollwitz Collection of the Kreissparkasse Köln on 22 April 1985, the 40th anniversary of the death of the artist. [2] This presentation took place in the former boardroom of the bank. Since 1989 the museum with its exhibition area of ...
Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an ...
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum is a museum in Berlin that owns one of the largest collections of works by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), who lived and worked in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg for over 50 years. [1][2] The museum opened in 1986, and traces its origins to the art collector Hans Pels-Leusden (d.1993). [1][2] Pels-Leusden ...
Their campaigns, such as the amnesty for political prisoners in 1928, for freedom in the arts, or in favor of liberalizing the law on abortion were supported by Albert Einstein, Kurt Tucholsky, Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Zille, Heinrich Mann, Erich Mühsam, Magnus Hirschfeld, Otto Dix, Max Liebermann, Erwin Piscator, Carl von Ossietzky, Heinrich ...