The directness and apparent simplicity of Kollwitz's work was hard-earned. She thought carefully about the most effective and accessible means of expression, and deliberately embraced drawings and ...

If anyone is well placed to provide a survey of Käthe Kollwitz’s powerfully moving work, it is Dr Hannelore Fischer, the director of Cologne’s Käthe Kollwitz Museum for over 30 years until her ...

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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 ...

*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 ...

The William Benton Museum of Art hosted “Käthe Kollwitz: Activism Through Art,” a virtual exhibition of artist Käthe Kollwitz’s art on Friday night. What is the role of the artist? That is the driving ...

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 their ...

The German artist Käthe Kollwitz envisioned the anguish of war, poverty and worker exploitation with great emotional immediacy, often showing how trauma impacts the body, but she rarely made work in ...

A true icon of pacifism and class struggle as well as one of the most recognized German artists of the 20th century, Käthe Kollwitz was born 150 years ago. DW takes a look at her life and art. Born ...