{"id":2219,"date":"2023-07-10T16:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/unkategorisiert\/germinal\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:30:58","slug":"germinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/germinal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Germinal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">A narrow, horizontal intaglio print from 1893 depicts a scene from \u00c9mile Zola&#8217;s novel in which two men fight over a woman in an empty tavern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Germinal_ENG.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Video about the work &#8216;Germinal&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;There was [wa\u0308hrend der Studienzeit der Ku\u0308nstlerin in Mu\u0308nchen] an association [during the artist&#8217;s student days in Munich] that brought together some girls from our class with Otto Greiner, Alexander Oppler, Gottlieb Elster. A theme was set for these evenings. So I reflect on the theme of &#8216;fight&#8217;. I chose the scene from Germinal, where in a smoky pub a fight takes place between two men for the young Kathrin. This composition was appreciated. For the first time I felt that my path was validated, great possibilities opened to my imagination, and the night was restless with an expectation of happiness. [&#8230;] For this purpose I needed studies. At that time, K\u00f6nigsberg had a number of sailors&#8217; taverns in the old areas of the Pregel, which were incredibly dangerous if visited in the evening. [&#8230;] The pub &#8216;Schiffchen&#8217; (Little Boat) with its double exits was most interesting to me. Wild riots could be heard inside, stabbings were on the daily order.&#8221;        <\/p>\n<cite>K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Looking Back on Earlier Times, 1941. Diaries, pp. 738ff. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;In the first period of my being here, I made the great plan to paint a picture, the quarrel scene from the Germinal, which I had made in Munich as a charcoal sketch. And then I went bravely about it. But I got stuck. I can&#8217;t paint the picture until spring, I can&#8217;t continue it in Berlin, so I&#8217;m doing all the preliminary studies [&#8230;] and only etching the whole thing when I have more practice in that technique. I am now almost finished with these preliminary works. I have found a splendid location where the scene can take place. It is a real murder pit, where sailors socialize, a wild dance hall. It is a spectacle in the evenings. I have made friends with the landlord and in the morning, when the hall is empty, I draw there, trembling and apprehensive.&#8221;        <\/p>\n<cite>The artist in a letter of 26.2.1891 to the Munich student friend Paul Hey. 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