Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was a German woman who lived through both world wars, losing her son to the first and her grandson to the second, constantly amidst pain since her husband was a doctor. She lived a sorrowful life through dark and changing times, and her art is as painful and raw as all that she saw. She worked almost entirely in black and white, with almost harsh strokes that reflect her subject matter: poverty, loss, uprising. Though the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of the Arts, she was later kicked out because of the radical, political nature of her art and her opinions, her work deemed degenerate by the Nazis.
What binds her art is not only the subject matter, but the story line through each of them, the personal nature of her narrative. In the mood she sets, the observer shares her guilt as the survivor, the witness.
See more of her work here.
http://www.mystudios.com/women/klmno/kollwitz.html
And her biography here.
http://rogallery.com/Kollwitz/kollwitz-bio.htm
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End, 1897
graphite, pen and ink with wash |
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| Mother with Dead Child, 1903 |
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| The Mothers, 1921 |
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