Karl kollwitz

Käthe kollwitz woman with dead child
Käthe kollwitz art style
Käthe kollwitz self-portrait

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Käthe Kollwitz

1867 to 1945

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 Karl Kollwitz in 1891.

Though Kollwitz studied both painting and printmaking, she turned exclusively to the print in the early 1890s. Influenced by fellow German artist Max Klinger, she saw the potential of the print for social commentary. Prints could be reproduced inexpensively and in multiples, allowing her to reach more people.

For the next 50 years she produced dramatic, emotion-filled etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs—generally in black and white but sometimes including touches of color. Initially, her husband’s working-class patients proved worthy models and subjects. Beginning in the teens, Kollwit

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Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (1867-1945) was a German artist best known for her drawings and prints, which offer a compassionate and often unsettling account of the human condition. A master of etching, lithography and woodcut, she chronicled in her work the lives of working people in the face of hunger, poverty and war.

Kollwitz was born in Konigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). She studied at an art school for women in Berlin, where she was inspired by the etchings of Max Klinger. In 1891 she married Karl Kollwitz, a doctor who treated the poor in Berlin. His practice furnished further inspiration in the way of subject matter. Kollwitz was drawn to “the representation of proletarian life.” She

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Käthe Kollwitz

German artist (1867–1945)

Käthe Kollwitz (German pronunciation:[kɛːtəkɔlvɪt͡s] 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 war on the working class.^[4]^[5] Despite the realism of her early works, her art is now more closely associated with Expressionism.^[6] Kollwitz was the first woman not only to be elected to the PrussianAcademy of Arts but also to receive honorary professor status.^[7]

Life and work

Youth

Kollwitz was born in Königsberg, Prussia, as the fifth child in her family. Her father, Karl Schmidt, was a Social Democrat who became a mason and house builder. Her mother, Katherina Schmidt, was the daughter of Julius Rupp,^[8] a Lutheran pastor who was expelled from the official Evangelical State Church and founded an