Because of their generally small size and relative insubstantiality, prints and drawings are easily upstaged when displayed alongside paintings and sculptures. So it was bold of the Museum of Modern ...

When Martha Kearns wrote the first English-language biography of the German artist Kaethe Kollwitz, she felt like she was alone. “So many people I talked to didn’t know who she was, this woman who was ...

IN THE PRENZLAUER Berg district in Berlin are a school, a museum and a neighbourhood named in Käthe Kollwitz’s honour. She was an accomplished painter and draughtswoman as well as a prolific ...

Conceptual artist and activist "Käthe Kollwitz" found out long ago that the best way to get people to listen to you is to wear a mask and crack a joke. That's exactly what her longtime group, the ...

The powerful work of German artist Käthe Kollwitz, including “Woman With Dead Child” from 1903, is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (Digital Media Department/Yale University Art ...

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Käthe Kollwitz, who understood how inseparable love is from grief, entwined the two in a lifetime’s worth of ...

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 — the death of ...

*This is the fourth in a series of stories about the work of Käthe Kollwitz and how it influenced artists, activists and collectors like Dr. Richard Simms, part of whose collection is being exhibited ...

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