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At the end of July 1932, Germany was to elect a new Reichstag, and the NSDAP was threatening to become the strongest force. In an “Urgent Appeal”, Käthe and Karl Kollwitz, together with Albert Einstein, Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) and many other well-known personalities, called for the SPD and KPD to unite as a “united workers’ […]
Kollwitz had repeatedly dealt with death in her work. The lithographic cycle Death, which comprises eight sheets, was created between 1934 and 1937 as a major work of her old age. The plan for a print cycle with this theme had apparently been on Käthe Kollwitz’s mind for years. Diary entries from 1934 provide information […]
Kollwitz’s last major sculptural work was created in the spring of 1938: Mother with dead Son, also called Pietà. Her increasing age and the limited income possibilities in the Third Reich forced Käthe Kollwitz to model sculptures only in smaller formats. The looming Second World War brought back memories of the death of her son […]
Central Memorial for the Victims of War and Tyranny of the Federal Republic of Germany The Neue Wache is one of the most visited memorials in Germany. The Neue Wache was designed and built by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the years 1816-1818, which renewed the old main guard of the royal palace. Since then it […]
Käthe Kollwitz’s last chalk lithograph was created at the end of 1941 and should be understood as a call for peace. Kollwitz first wrote the quote from Goethe that she used as the title of the picture in her diary in February 1915, barely four months after the death of her son Peter (1896-1914) in […]
