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Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz

Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (1867 - 1945) was active/lived in Germany, Russian Federation.  Kathe Kollwitz is known for Etching, lithography, woodcut-figures.

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The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher of Laguna Woods, California:

Kaethe Kollwitz was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia in 1867.  The family name was Schmidt, and they were cultivated, middle class people who considered a talent to be a duty.  Her art education began in 1881; she began studying with Rudolph Mauer, a local engraver. At seventeen, she enrolled in the School for Women Artists in Berlin.  Her early studies, which reveal a developing social consciousess, depicted workers engaged in manual labor. In 1885, she became engaged to a medical student, Karl Kollwitz, who was also a member of the Social Democratic Party.  Over the next fifty years, her husband's practice exposed her to an even wider range of suffering and tragedy.   

Kollwitz first studied etching in 1889-90 in Munich, the artistic center of 19th century Germany.  She was greatly influenced at the time by Max   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 18671 characters.]  Artist bio

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