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The powerful work of German artist Käthe Kollwitz, including “Woman With Dead Child” from 1903, is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (Digital Media Department/Yale ...
Käthe Kollwitz’s searing “Woman With Dead Child” captures the most isolating despair imaginable I would venture: Nothing. Because there is nothing. There are no words. What has happened ...
So it was bold of the Museum of Modern Art to hang Käthe Kollwitz’s “Self-Portrait en Face” (c. 1904), an 187/8 - by-133/8 -inch grisaille lithograph, in a room with a lot of brightly ...
In its visceral portrayal of anguish, Käthe Kollwitz’s “Frau mit totem Kind” (“Woman with Dead Child”, pictured) was unlike any previous depiction of the Virgin Mary cradling the body ...
“Käthe Kollwitz” (1867-1945), the Museum of Modern Art’s survey of the German Expressionist and political and social activist, is dimly lighted, the color of dusk. This is understandabl ...
It would be possible to visit the Indianapolis Art Museum for its Käthe Kollwitz exhibition and not think the German artist born 150 years ago was making art for America in 2025. Not easy, but ...
If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Käthe Kollwitz, “Self portrait” (1891–92), gouache on paper (all photos Alice Procter/Hyperallergic ...
I’m not sure it’s possible to glance at a Käthe Kollwitz print without feeling something. Kollwitz’s subjects, mostly women, carry a world of agony, resistance, and love in their carefully ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Käthe Kollwitz, who understood how inseparable love is from grief, entwined the two in a lifetime’s ...
On my only trip to Berlin, in 2019, I saw a lot of Käthe Kollwitz. I walked through Kollwitzstrasse and Kollwitzplatz, near the site of her home, in Prenzlauer Berg. At the Staatliche Museen and ...
The Museum of Modern Art in New York will soon mount a retrospective for Käthe Kollwitz, the pathbreaking German printmaker whose work often pictured women and the working class and tackled ...