How do you 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

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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

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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

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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

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Happy Mother's Day to all of our moms! 💐

Image: Kathe Kollwitz, "Mother with Child" (detail), 1933. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Käthe Kollwitz, Self-portrait with hand to forehead, 1910. Etching

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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

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Käthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait, 1892, a German artist whose passion for socialist politics would hugely influence her work, often depicting the plight of the working classes

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„(...) 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

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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)

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Käthe Kollwitz, Mothers Protecting Their Children, 1918
Hunger, 1923
Germany's Children Are Starving, 1924
The March of the Weavers in Berlin, 1897

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Friends of the Department of Prints & Drawings 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.

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Kathe Kollwitz, exhibition of her dark & moving prints free - photo 1905, self portrait, & Death

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Käthe Kollwitz, Lamentation, 1938

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Käthe Kollwitz, Sleeping Woman with Child ,1929.

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Käthe Kollwitz, (1867-1945) German artist whose art depicts the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class

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Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child, 1903 etching

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Käthe Kollwitz, Lamentation, 1938

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