Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz: Social Injustice

Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, a German artist, used several techniques to express her feelings toward social injustice. She was an expressionist and perfectionist who portrayed her life through images. She devoted her work including sculptures to humanity, detailing historic rebellions against social injustice and creating memorable images of Berlin’s working-class women, mothers and children and the victims of modern warfare. With the use of drawings, etching, lithography, woodcuts, paintings, printmaking, and sculptures, the world around her and her environment came to life in her art. Subjects of war and poverty was Kollwitz’s style of images of women grieving the dead. In some of her works of bereaved mothers tell much of the forbidding story,