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How do you #measure the beauty of art? It is the value, aesthetic, skill, artist’s reputation, mark making, meaning, colour... in this humble subjective opinion, it’s a bit of everything. Here are my picks from @AGOartmatters #vss365 #Kollwitz, #van_Gogh, #Pootoogook, #Emily_Carr
May I present how art process & materials impact content?
Käthe Kollwitz, Woman w/ dead child (1903)
1. Charcoal & white chalk on paper
2. Soft-ground etching
3. Etching w/ engraving overprinted lithographically w/ gold tone plate
More @GettyMuseum https://t.co/xonYQREvVb
The Survivors, Kathe Kollwitz, 1923 #kathekollwitz #expressionism
Happy Birthday to German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture, Käthe Kollwitz, July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) https://t.co/2FmZpPDw6K #KätheKollwitz #art #birthday
Käthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait, 1890, German artist whose passion for socialist politics would hugely influence her work, often depicting the plight of the working classes #womensart
Happy Mother's Day to all of our #BlueHen moms! 💐
Image: Kathe Kollwitz, "Mother with Child" (detail), 1933. (Wikimedia Commons)
Käthe Kollwitz, Self-portrait with hand to forehead, 1910. Etching #womensart
Beautiful work by Hannah Wooll 😌💕✨
Hannah was recently selected to appear alongside artists such as Jenny Holzer, Mamma Andersson, Rose Wylie, Rosemarie Trockel, Kathe Kollwitz, and Yoko Ono in The Future is Female - Love Letters at Museum Coda in Apeldoorne, The Netherlands
„(...) Only the portfolio on Death II contained some beautiful sheets. And of course the Secreta, which, however, I won’t sell or show. I don’t know what will happen to them after my death.« Käthe Kollwitz, Diaries, 1920 🏛KÄTHE KOLLWITZ MUSEUM, Köln
Love Scene I, c 1909/1910
He was the ultimate Academician in that his first concern was status & clique whereas those artists of stature choose their own path (Rembrandt, Kollwitz, Rego & Goya etc). Lady Frances Finch (1781-2), Captain Coussmaker (c1782), Self (1780) & Countess Spencer (1781-2)
Käthe Kollwitz, Mothers Protecting Their Children, 1918
Hunger, 1923
Germany's Children Are Starving, 1924
The March of the Weavers in Berlin, 1897
Friends of the Department of Prints & Drawings @britishmuseum Autumn Party this evening. A chance to look at new acquisitions and current shows. Käthe Kollwitz, Grayson Perry, Edward John Poynter, David Hockney. Great to see John Christian Collection, acquired this year.
Kathe Kollwitz, exhibition of her dark & moving prints free @britishmuseum - photo 1905, self portrait, & Death
Käthe Kollwitz, (1867-1945) German artist whose art depicts the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class
German expressionist Käthe Kollwitz, born on this date in 1867, showed the effects of poverty on the working class. This is "The Mothers."
Käthe Kollwitz, The Madness of Full Life
Mothers Protecting Their Children, 1918; charcoal on laid paper
German artist Käthe Kollwitz, of who the Barber owns 3 prints, was the first women to ever be elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts #IWD