{"id":2249,"date":"2023-07-10T14:37:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/unkategorisiert\/from-the-urgent-appeal-to-degenerate-art\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:55:48","slug":"from-the-urgent-appeal-to-degenerate-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/from-the-urgent-appeal-to-degenerate-art\/","title":{"rendered":"From the ‘Urgent Appeal’ to ‘Degenerate Art’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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”, K\u00e4the 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’ front”. The appeal remained politically inconsequential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Urgent Appeal, 1932; (c) Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin\n\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reprint of the Urgent Appeal in the FUNKE newspaper on 25 June 1932, Friedrich Ebert Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In February 1933, the “Urgent Appeal” again called for the left-wing parties to unite against Hitler, again signed by K\u00e4the and Karl together with Heinrich Mann and other personalities. K\u00e4the Kollwitz and Heinrich Mann were then forced to resign from the Academy of Arts. Max Liebermann resigned as honorary president of the Academy in May and also resigned, and Liebermann died in 1935. Kollwitz was one of the few who accompanied him on his last journey. Karl Kollwitz’s health insurance licence was temporarily withdrawn and son Hans, by now a school doctor in Berlin, also briefly lost his job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n