Kathe Kollwitz : drawings
 
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Figurative painters | Kathe Kollwitz
Kathe Kollwitz was born in Konigsberg, Prussia. Her father had been a judge. Käthe was immediately attracted by the naturalistic movement which, permeated with socialist ideas, became the decisive force in literature in the late eighties. Her work, though profoundly political in its implication, rarely trespassed beyond the realm of emotional empathy. Grief stares from the eyes of helpless children at the deathbed of their mother, despair cries out wordlessly from the face of the mothers who wait in the doctor’s anteroom. Only in a few of her pictures does she indicate also the hope of a way out. In the First World War Käthe Kollwitz lost her eldest son in action. For a long time thereafter she considered designing a war memorial. The Nazis silenced Kollwitz when they came to power. In 1933 she was forced to resign her place on the faculty of the Academy of Arts.
Alex Kanevsky Cong Hua Lu Davoud Emdadian David Hockney Dan Thompson Golucho Jan Esmann John Sargent Jordan Wolfson Jeffrey T. Larson Jennifer Anderson Kathe Kollwitz Kent Williams Lucian Freud Mohsen Irani Maya Kulenovic Mojgan Najafi Nick Lepard Olga Boznanska Qiang Huang Reza Hedayat Scott Burdick Siavash Mahvis Tiina Heiska Vania Comoretti Vahid Chamani Valentin Serov Yue Minjun
