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Käthe Kollwitz’s searing “Woman With Dead Child” captures the most isolating despair imaginable I would venture: Nothing. Because there is nothing. There are no words. What has happened ...
Käthe Kollwitz’s fierce belief in social justice and her indelible images made her one of Germany’s best printmakers. A dazzling MoMA show reminds us why. By Aruna D’Souza An artist friend ...
Jesse talks to a founding member of The Guerilla Girls, who goes by Kathe Kollwitz. She'll reflect on the origins of the group, her anonymity in the art world and what the group means now more ...
“Käthe Kollwitz” (1867-1945), the Museum of Modern Art’s survey of the German Expressionist and political and social activist, is dimly lighted, the color of dusk. This is understandabl ...
Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), one of the great German artists of the 20th century, was one of them. Her series of woodcuts, the “Krieg Cycle” (“krieg” in German means “war”), is on show ...
In conjunction with the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ retrospective “The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back” (on view through Sunday), founding member Kathe Kollwitz reflected on a career of ...
In its visceral portrayal of anguish, Käthe Kollwitz’s “Frau mit totem Kind” (“Woman with Dead Child”, pictured) was unlike any previous depiction of the Virgin Mary cradling the body ...
I stood in front of Mother with Two Children, a bronze sculpture crafted by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I stood there for a long time, gazing. I wanted ...
Neil MacGregor focuses on Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), whose art expresses the loss and suffering of war, especially after the death of her younger son Peter in battle in 1914. Show more Neil ...
Poet Ruth Padel reflects on the German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her youngest son, Peter, who died on the battlefields of the First World War in October 1914. Show more How great ...
Death stalks every line of Kathe Kollwitz’s rough, rich drawings, bleak and enthralling in their visceral heft. Heavy, indeed, is one way to think of them; standing in too dense a cluster of ...