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Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945)

Autor(a) de Prints and Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz

73+ Works 336 Membros 3 Reviews 2 Favorited

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Séries

Obras de Käthe Kollwitz

Die Tagebücher (1996) 17 cópias
Kaethe Kollwitz (1946) 12 cópias
Aus meinem Leben (1958) 10 cópias
Plakate gegen den Krieg (1983) 3 cópias
Bekenntnisse (1984) 3 cópias
Meisterwerk Visuelle (German Edition) (1994) — Ilustrador — 3 cópias
Käthe Kollwitz : Druckgrafik, Plakate, Zeichnungen (1983) — Ilustrador — 2 cópias
Portrait of a Woman 1 exemplar(es)
Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings (1959) 1 exemplar(es)
' Ich will wirken in dieser Zeit'. (2000) 1 exemplar(es)
Mother and child 1 exemplar(es)
Käthe Kollwitz : das farbige Werk (1987) 1 exemplar(es)
Kathe Kollwitz werk 1 exemplar(es)
Tod Und Frau 1 exemplar(es)
Das plastische Werk 1 exemplar(es)
Aufruhr - The Revolt 1 exemplar(es)

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Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Kollwitz, Kathe
Data de nascimento
1867-07-08
Data de falecimento
1945-04-22
Local de enterro
Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde, Berlin, Germany
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Germany
Local de nascimento
Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
Local de falecimento
Moritzburg, Germany
Locais de residência
Königsberg, Prussia (now Kalingrad ∙ Russia)
Berlin, Germany
Nordhausen, Germany
Moritzburg, Germany
Educação
Women's Art School, Munich, Germany
Academie Julian, Paris, France
Ocupação
printmaker
lithographer
sculptor
German expressionist artist
draughtsman
Premiações
Prussian Academy of Arts (member)
Pequena biografia
Käthe Kollwitz, née Schmidt, was born in Konigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), to a prosperous artisan family. Recognizing her artistic talent, her parents arranged art lessons for her when she was a teenager. She attended The Berlin School of Art and then the Women's Art School in Munich. In 1890, she returned to Konigsberg and rented her first art studio. A year later, she married Dr. Karl Kollwitz, a physician to whom she had been engaged since he was a medical student. The couple settled in one of the poorest sections of the city. There Kollwitz developed the strong social conscience that was reflected in her work. She was influenced by the artist Max Klinger and the writings of Emile Zola, as well as by the suffering of workers and her husband's patients. She produced etchings, lithographs, drawings, and woodcuts. Her first public success came when her portfolio entitled A Weavers’ Revolt (1895–1898), inspired by the Gerhard Hauptmann play Die Weber, was shown at the Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung. She was appointed to a special teaching post at the Künstlerinnenschule.
In 1904, on a trip to Paris, she visited to the Académie Julian, where she learned the basic principles of sculpture. She became the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy but because of her socialist beliefs, she was expelled from the academy on the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933. She was harassed and threatened by the Nazis, who classified her art as "degenerate" and forbid her to exhibit it. Her home was bombed during World War II, and she moved to Moritzburg, a town near Dresden, where she lived her final months. In 1986, the private Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum opened in Berlin as a permanent home for a major portion of her complete works.

Membros

Resenhas

This lithography is published internationally on similar cards.
 
Marcado
FlipBool | Jan 13, 2022 |
A compact Intro with a Kollwitz biography/evaluation preceeds the giant reproductions of the prints and drawings. (Her sculpture is not represented in this book.) The scale of the reproductions is really advantageous and, being monochrome prints and drawings, little is lost in photography and re-printing, compared to art forms where colour and texture are crucial.

Kollwitz seems to have had two main strands to her work - social justice and personal tragedy. The former was expressed by themes of workers' rights, poverty, ill-health and powerlessness and by pacifism. She didn't subscribe to any particular political movement or party, however and the link between the social justice works and the individual tragedies is simply basic human compassion. Kollwitz evidently had this in abundance. There is also a clear connection between her pacifism and the theme of individuals meeting Death (personified) with diverse reactions.

Kollwitz had enormous talent for expressing emotion through depiction of bodily posture and facial expression and this is what gives her work its power. I'm glad to have discovered her museum on my trip to Berlin last year.
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Arbieroo | Jul 17, 2020 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
73
Also by
3
Membros
336
Popularidade
#70,811
Avaliação
½ 4.5
Resenhas
3
ISBNs
39
Idiomas
5
Favorito
2

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