Kathe Kollwitz
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- Käthe Kollwitz was born in 1867 in Prussia to a middle class family. Growing as a girl she was put into the best art opportunity a woman could have at the time learning to be open minded and creative.
- ITS A GIRL!!!
- She'll be an artist!She'll be an artist!
- Prussia 1867
- After a 7 year engagement Käthe Kollwitz married a physician called Karl Kollwitz
- Finally 7 years later you said yes
- Okay I was busy becoming a physician
- Lets start an art studio?
- After their marriage, they moved to Berlin and they started a doctor office/art studio running for 50 years even after having two kids.
- Yes but also a Doctors office!
- Kollwitz focused on self-portraits, mother and son portraits (having two sons of her own) mainly focusing on line and hand paints being influenced by her political ideas (socialism)
- Socialism
- One of Kollwitz sons died during World War One in 1914 influencing her art works obsession on death especially after her grandson died during World War Two.
- Kollwitz was never ever to fulfill her emotional goals and political goals of frustration of falling short. But drawing paintings of her trauma was a relieving sign for her.
- “While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. Did I feel relieved when I made the prints on war and knew that the war would go on raging? Certainly not,
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