Word: kollwitz
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...silent lines penetrate the marrow like a cry of pain; such a cry was never heard among the Greeks and Romans." Thus German Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann described the works of the late Käthe Kollwitz, Germany's leading woman artist and one of the most powerful figures of 20th century expressionist art. But in a way, Dramatist Hauptmann was wrong, as the current exhibit of Kollwitz' work at Manhattan's Galerie St. Etienne clearly shows. Although she left few garlands in honor of Apollo or Aphrodite, her deep cry of sorrow at the death...
...Kollwitz came of stern stuff and kept as unflinching an eye on life as on death. From her grandfather, a onetime Lutheran minister who founded the first Free Religious Congregation in Germany, she inherited a sense of compassion and a strong personal ethic. From her father, a Socialist law student turned master stonemason, came a reverence for craftsmanship and a social conscience. In her married life, she approved the decision of her doctor husband to devote his life to a clinic in Berlin's Northeast working-class section...
...death of her son Peter in Flanders during World War I struck Käthe Kollwitz to the bone, calling forth her most moving protests against war. A prime example is The Survivors (see cut), done in 1923, in which even the clamor of children remains hushed before the unforgettable mask of grief. It was a face the Nazis could not bear to see, and they banned her works. Invited to escape to the U.S., Kollwitz chose to remain in Germany, fearful that the Nazis would persecute her family if she left. In 1943, shortly before Allied bombers destroyed...
...fact that last week's exhibition was a near sellout was a tribute to the enduring meaning of Käthe Kollwitz' vision. For in her way, she has given a woman's view as impassioned as Goya's horror of war, one that affirms the value of the human spirit, even while it grimly insists that revolt too often ends in chains, that death must finally triumph over life...
...ever put together in one show opened this week in Washington's National Gallery, first stop in a cross-country tour of four major U.S. cities. To show the whole range of German drawing, from medieval guild model books to 20th century Germany's Käthe Kollwitz, the West German government assembled 153 key works from 26 German museums and collectors. The result proves that though German artists rarely top the rich palettes of Italian painters or outdo the French in taste and elegance, as superb draftsmen they are second to none...