Kathe Kollwitz gets her own tweet because

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Die immer wiederholte Darstellung öffnete mir ein Ventil oder eine Möglichkeit, das Leben zu ertragen.

Käthe *8.7.1867 - 22.4.1945
Ihr Sohn Peter fällt 1914 im , sie wird Pazifistin; 1933 Ausschluss aus der Akademie, ihre Kunst gilt nun als "entartet".

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Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) : Der Schwebende - the 1927 work was seized by the Nazis in 1937 and later melted. This is the one in the Church of the Antonins in Köln. The face is a portrait of Käthe Kollwitz - via Moana Weil-Curiel

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Käthe Kollwitz 👇👇. . for those know .. and those that don't. Re-Stumbled upon today .. remembered her story. powerful. Death in 1945.

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Käthe Kollwitz: Woman with Dead Child - 1903

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Kathe Kollwitz
One of my favorite artists, truly a master!

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"March of the Weavers". Käthe Kollwitz. c.1931.
Image: Moma

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Käthe Kollwitz would love to have you as a follower :)

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Thread: I used to think Art is Emotion. But I realised, after a lot of thought, that Art is Spiritual Emotion.

By Spiritual I mean a power greater than oneself. Not just God sitting on her cloud having a giggle.

Great art is Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Kollwitz or Rego

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Self-portrait
Käthe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945)

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"The Mothers" - Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)

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Artists standing up and shouting out!
Emotive, anti war drawing by painter and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz (German 1867-1945) 'Seed corn should not be ground' 1941 https://t.co/xKtvkce5PF

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Already an accomplished artist, Käthe Kollwitz became an anti-war activist after her son died during World War I (1914-1918), in order to capture the despair felt by impoverished families in postwar Germany.
https://t.co/kZuNKSCJcT

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No War

- Artworks: by Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945, German)

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"Self-portrait With Hand To Forehead" by Käthe Kollwitz (1910). Etching and drypoint on wove paper.

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