Käthe Kollwitz was a German printmaker and sculptor whose stark, emotionally powerful graphic work depicting poverty, grief, and the suffering caused by war made her one of the most significant German artists of the early twentieth century. Working primarily in etching, lithography, and woodcut, she produced print cycles such as A Weavers' Revolt and War that portray working-class hardship and the toll of conflict with unflinching directness, drawing partly on her own experience losing a son in the First World War and a grandson in the Second. Kollwitz was the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts, a position the Nazi government later forced her to resign, and her socially committed, humanist graphic art remains widely reproduced as an image of pacifist and anti-war sentiment.
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TrainingKarl Stauffer-Bern, School for Women Artists, Berlin 1 Partially Attested
Death PlaceMoritzburg, near Dresden 1 The cited sentence says she lived her final months in Moritzburg; that she died there is the standard account but rests on that sentence and the lead dates, not on a separately quoted death-place line. Käthe Kollwitz
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Closely associated with German Expressionism.
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Käthe Kollwitz (German pronunciation: [kɛːtə kɔlvɪt͡s] born Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture.
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8 July 1867
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22 April 1945
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was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture.
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8 July 1867
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22 April 1945
Early life, sentence on her birth
Kollwitz was born in Königsberg, Prussia, as the fifth child in her family.
Later life, sentence on her final months
She moved first to Nordhausen, then to Moritzburg, a town near Dresden, where she lived her final months as a guest of Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony.
Early life, sentence on her formal art study
she began her formal study of art under the direction of Karl Stauffer-Bern, a friend of the artist Max Klinger, at the School for Women Artists in Berlin.
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Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class.
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Käthe Kollwitz (German pronunciation: [kɛːtə kɔlvɪt͡s] born Schmidt; 8 July 1867-22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture.
In Group: Art Nouveau, Realist and Symbolist Printmakers, Early life section
At sixteen she began working with subjects associated with the Realism movement, making drawings of working people, sailors and peasants she saw in her father's offices.
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