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Käthe Kollwitz’s art works on the theme of Woman with Dead Child are another highlight. Käthe Kollwitz intensively engaged with this theme from 1903 onwards, in connection with her work on the Peasants’ War. In the early etching of 1903 she already dealt with the motif of maternal mourning and took it up again in […]
Kollwitz presented something surprising in two respects at the spring exhibition of the Freie Secession in 1916. The renowned graphic artist exhibited her first sculptural work, with which she approached a rather unusual motif for her. “After the small work I made in the summer, of which you saw a plaster cast, the small love […]
In 1904, Käthe Kollwitz undertook a two-month trip to Paris with the aim of learning sculptural techniques. As an established artist, Käthe Kollwitz expanded her artistic repertoire to include sculptural work, and in 1904, while studying at the Académie Julian in Paris, she visited the eminent sculptor Auguste Rodin in his studio. During Auguste Rodin’s […]
