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Chandler, an ardent Black Power advocate, is a man with fire in his belly; but he chooses to channel it into art rather than arson. He says art can be as effective as destruction in bringing about social change, thereby allying himself with such potent practitioners as Orozco, Kollwitz, Grosz, and Shahn...
...protests, they gun him down like an animal and resume their aimless journey. Director Jan Schmidt has given Ozone the spare style of a Kafka fable, abetted by Poničanová's tragic portrait of a woman who seems to be lifted directly from a Kollwitz engraving...
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Excerpts from the diaries and letters of German Artist Kathe Kollwitz...
...modern sculpture, all the more refreshing because Hirshhorn collected it with no pretensions and no esthetic doubletalk, but simply out of his own compulsive love. When asked why he bought Epstein's Visitation, he explains: "It was a serene, beautiful piece which excited me." Of Käthe Kollwitz' Pietà, he says: "I thought it very powerful." It is-as Hirshhorn himself might have added about his whole approach to art-as simple as that...
Rudolph Oetker has a lot to make the bankers happy; he collects pictures almost as avidly as companies, has a Frans Hals portrait in his library, and a striking charcoal sketch by Käthe Kollwitz in his headquarters office at Bielefeld. Its title is Aid the Starving, but it seems to reassure the moneymen...