PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST KÄTHE KOLLWITZ

Portrait of the Artist looks at her work through the exploration of self-portraits and portraits of working women, her two great ser ies concerned with social injustice: Ein Weberaufstand (A Weavers Revolt, 1897) and Bauernkrieg (Peasants War, 1908), the ever-pre sent imagery of death, especially a mothers grief, and finally the theme of war and remembrance after her younger son, Peter, had b een killed at the beginning of the First World War.Kollwitz was an intensely passionate individual, in personal relationships and po litics, an ...[Read more]