Word: kollwitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task of Christian art," wrote Leo Tolstoy, "is to establish brotherly union among men." Kathe Kollwitz' prints and drawings pass even Tolstoy's severe test. For more than 40 years, her art helped finance the clinic maintained by her doctor husband in a Berlin slum, and she found many of her models in the clinic as well. Pitiful studies of the poor and starving, her pictures were designed to shake Christian consciences awake, and they...
...Kollwitz self-portrait, the last she ever made, was on exhibition last week in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (see cut). Aged, sick and nearly blind, Kathe Kollwitz had pictured herself in profile and alone, turned aside in exhaustion from her Christian task. In 1945, soon after she finished the lithograph, death came to 78-year-old Kathe Kollwitz...
...Berlin's Russian zone, 100 prints and drawings of the poor, the sick, the starved and the dead went on view. Done by the late German Socialist Käthe Kollwitz (TIME, Dec. 3) and damned by the Nazis, they were mostly about Germany after World War I. But many had an obvious application to the present...
...Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were well known to German Kathe Kollwitz; she had sketched them from life for more than 50 years. When Death finally turned on her in Germany's Harz Mountains last September, she was 78, worn out, and nearly blind. But her prints and drawings still stood as a terrible and pitiful description of human suffering. In the '205 they had seemed, to U.S. eyes, grotesquely exaggerated; the pictures of Belsen now made them seem like plain, eyewitness reporting...
...simple thing to Socialist Kathe Kollwitz. For her, it was simply a weapon with which to fight complacency. In 1891, at 24, she married a Berlin doctor, helped finance his clinic by selling harrowing studies of the kind of people who came to him as patients. Kaiser Wilhelm II called her stuff "the art of the gutter," in 1898 canceled a gold medal award which was to have been given her. She bitterly opposed World War I, and skillfully recorded its ugly aftermath in Germany. The Nazis stopped her from exhibiting, but she kept right on working, turned to sculpture...