News

Although her art is better known in her native ... offers remarkable insight into her practice. Käthe Kollwitz, “Woman with Dead Child” (1903), line etching and drypoint One of Kollwitz ...
It would be possible to visit the Indianapolis Art Museum for its Käthe Kollwitz exhibition and not think the German artist born 150 years ago was making art for America in 2025. Not easy, but ...
Käthe Kollwitz, Charge, sheet 5 of the cycle »Peasants War«, 1902_03, Line etching, drypoint, aquatint, reservage and soft ground, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln A woman hunches over a lifeless body, the ...
Indeed, the closest image to Kollwitz’s in Western art may be Peter Paul Rubens’s “Saturn Devouring a Son” in the Prado, in Madrid. It’s a disturbing connection, but intentional ...
So it was bold of the Museum of Modern Art to hang Käthe Kollwitz’s “Self-Portrait en Face” (c. 1904), an 187/8 - by-133/8 -inch grisaille lithograph, in a room with a lot of brightly ...
The powerful work of German artist Käthe Kollwitz, including “Woman With Dead Child” from 1903, is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (Digital Media Department/Yale ...
Käthe Kollwitz, who understood how inseparable ... She packed a whole range of incandescent feeling into black-and-white drawings, inky etchings and desaturated lithographs.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel.
Many of Kollwitz’s German contemporaries, in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, took war and revolution as their subjects. But her work still scrapes us raw. The Museum of Modern Art ...
“Käthe Kollwitz” (1867-1945), the Museum of Modern Art’s survey of the German Expressionist and political and social activist, is dimly lighted, the color of dusk. This is understandabl ...