{"id":2261,"date":"2023-07-10T13:57:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/unkategorisiert\/seed-for-sowing-should-not-be-milled\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:15:15","slug":"seed-for-sowing-should-not-be-milled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/seed-for-sowing-should-not-be-milled\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Seed for sowing should not be milled&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">K\u00e4the Kollwitz&#8217;s last chalk lithograph was created at the end of 1941 and should be understood as a call for peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 the war. In 1918, she publicly spoke out against the call for more war volunteers, using Goethe&#8217;s words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Only a part of art can be taught, but the artist needs to make it whole. He who knows only a part is constantly mistaken while talking much; he who possesses art wholly may only create while speaking seldom or late. Those who only know a part have no secrets and no power, their teaching is, like baked bread, tasty and filling for just a day; flour cannot be sown, and seeds of labor shall not be ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite>Wilhelm Meister&#8217;s apprenticeship [erstver\u00f6ffentlicht 1795\/96], Lesson of the 7th book<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The artist writes about this in her diary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/DA_Video_Saatfruechte1_ENG.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Video with a diary quote about the work &#8216;Seeds&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Second World War<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As K\u00e4the Kollwitz grew older, she increasingly had to say goodbye to loved ones. Her older brother Konrad had already died in 1932. Her husband Karl died in 1940, and in September 1942 she received the news that her first-born grandson \u2014 who bore the name of his deceased uncle Peter \u2014 had been killed as a soldier in Russia.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 1943, at the urging of her family, K\u00e4the Kollwitz left the increasing bombing in Berlin and found a place to stay with the sculptor Margaret B\u00f6ning (1911-1995) in Nordhausen. On November 23, 1943, the apartment building in Wei\u00dfenburgerstra\u00dfe where the artist had lived for 51 years was destroyed in air raids. Most of her artistic work was brought to safety in time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter from Nordhausen to her daughter-in-law Ottilie in February 1944, she formulated something like her life&#8217;s summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/DA_Video_Saatfruechte2_ENG.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/permanent-exhibition\/new-guard\/\">Previous Post: Age and Death &#8211; New Guard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/tour-permanent-exhibition\/\">Back to table of contents<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is the last post of the tour through the permanent exhibition &#8220;But yet it is art&#8221;, learn more about the origins of the museum under the link <a href=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/history-of-the-museum\/\">Museum History<\/a> or discover places in Berlin with a Kollwitz connection in our tour <a href=\"https:\/\/kaethe-kollwitz-digital.de\/en\/?page_id=1635\">K\u00e4the To Go<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K\u00e4the Kollwitz&#8217;s last chalk lithograph was created at the end of 1941 and should be understood as a call for peace. 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