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As part of his travels he investigated the art of other major painters including this impressionistic study of a Tiepelo ceiling fresco from the Würzberger Residenz. Also shown is German Warrior with Roman Helmet (nd). A challenge with his work is that there is little information
Schindler travelled around Western Europe from 1895 & would have become aware of modern art movements in France. His work has some similarities with Schneider. Apples (nd), Figure (1895) & David & Goliath (1888)
The Far Right forced Kollwitz to resign her professorship & she started on her Death Cycle including The Call of Death (self-portrait), Young Girl in the Lap of Death & Death Seizing a Woman (1934). It’s hard not to see these as symbolic of the collapse of German civilisation
Kollwitz created her three most famous posters - Germany’s Children Starving (1924), Bread (1924) & Never Again War (1924) at a time when Germany was collapsing after the Great War. It was a time of crisis & children were the great artist’s concern
In 1910 Kollwitz turned towards the subject that she would make her own, motherhood & loss, in Runover. The loss of her son in 1914 was the genesis of her moving sculpture The Grieving Parents. Each is an island of tortured grief
Thread: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) is one of my favourite artists - as for her, art IS emotion. Throughout her life she depicted a series of astonishing self-portraits. She was a master of ink, charcoal, pencil, stone & bronze. Here’s a brief overview
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Apollo (2019)
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He had an idiosyncratic vision where he looked at the corner of things or the overlooked detail. I love his Palace Garden & his moonlight studies for that very reason.
In order to make his figures life like he took care to study the human form. Part of that was to draw himself - including the iconic image of his own foot. This was done after a long day & shows the artist’s compulsion to draw