Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:
Expressionism
Date and Place of Birth:
July 8, 1867, Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
Life:
Käthe Kollwitz, a committed Socialist and humanist, fought against an unjust world with her eye and her hand. Her woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and charcoal drawings (all of which, not coincidentally, made her work affordable) are starkly realistic, yet show sympathetic compassion for victims of war, poverty and hunger. Though often categorized as an Expressionist, she predated the movement and never veered from her own style of Realism. She died, displaced, mere days before the end of WWII.
Important Works:
- The Weavers' Uprising (series), 1891
- Peasants War (series), 1902-08
- War (series), 1922-23
- Death (series), 1934-35
Date and Place of Death:
April 22, 1945, Moritzburg (near Dresden), Germany
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