Many European artists at the end of the last century established their fame equally through painting and printmaking. A great exception was German artist Kathe Kollwitz. Her early ambition was to ...

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 ...

If you go to an art museum: contemporary, encyclopedic, local – odds are most of the art displayed was made by white men. Even if you leave out the renaissance painters and the Dutch Masters. It's ...

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 ...

Kathe Kollwitz was the very model of a socially responsible artist. She once wrote: ”I want to be effective in this time when people are so helpless….” And she dedicated nearly all of her art to the ...

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 ...

Philip Dodd and the writer Joanna Kavenna consider the challenges of art in an age of irony and the work of Kathe Kollwitz; Lawrence Norfolk rereads the poetry of John Ashbery. Show more Philip Dodd ...

Philip Dodd and Joanna Kavenna consider art in an age of irony as a Kathe Kollwitz show opens in Birmingham and Lawrence Norfolk remembers the poet John Ashbery. Show more Philip Dodd and Joanna ...

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"First published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London 12 November 2022 - 12 February 2023."--Title page verso. hmsgmain copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution ...

Foreword / Andrew Perchuck -- Introduction / Louis Marchesano -- Artistic quality and politics in the early reception of Kollwitz's prints / Louis Marchesano and Natascha Kirchner -- Kollwitz, gender, ...