Käthe Kollwitz: A Brief Essay
Introducion
Birth, maternity and death, three concepts drawn and sculpted by the hands of Käthe Kollwitz in all her work. Pain can have a rare beauty, an adjacent romanticism, and this was something that Kollwitz could extract from the essence of her being. Observing her work, one can feel like doing a poetic journey that leads us to existential paradigms, where the ugly can be beautiful as well as black can be white, or where the sadness can be happiness. When i first sow her drawings during the classroom of Professor Jac Saorsa, I was attracted by the way this artist speaks using charcoal and paper. I was intrigued to know what she had to say in her images. This intrigue motivated me to choose her for my essay for "História e prácticas do desenho”, in wich i …show more content…
In 1867, Königsberg, was the ancient capital of Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). She was a painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Her simple traits gaive personality to printed posters and manifestos during protests, and her creations gave voice to the status of mothers of children who died fighting in war. This German artist with her art work, made a call to the protection of mothers towards their children. Being wife, mother and artist, Kollwitz lived the rough days of the Weimar Republic, the rise and imposition of Nazism, and the outbrake and development of the Second World War. Much of her work was devoted to self-portraits, doing more than 100, in which, one can see the progression of time in her body, in her creations and in her artistic growth. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she witnessed her success in life. Besides loosing her youngest son, she saw the death of one of her grandchildren, she lived the allied advancing troops on Germany and also the bombings that destroyed the country, including her home and studio. She died on April 22, 1945, at Moritzburg, just days before the suicide of Hitler and the fall of
Birth, maternity and death, three concepts drawn and sculpted by the hands of Käthe Kollwitz in all her work. Pain can have a rare beauty, an adjacent romanticism, and this was something that Kollwitz could extract from the essence of her being. Observing her work, one can feel like doing a poetic journey that leads us to existential paradigms, where the ugly can be beautiful as well as black can be white, or where the sadness can be happiness. When i first sow her drawings during the classroom of Professor Jac Saorsa, I was attracted by the way this artist speaks using charcoal and paper. I was intrigued to know what she had to say in her images. This intrigue motivated me to choose her for my essay for "História e prácticas do desenho”, in wich i …show more content…
In 1867, Königsberg, was the ancient capital of Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). She was a painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Her simple traits gaive personality to printed posters and manifestos during protests, and her creations gave voice to the status of mothers of children who died fighting in war. This German artist with her art work, made a call to the protection of mothers towards their children. Being wife, mother and artist, Kollwitz lived the rough days of the Weimar Republic, the rise and imposition of Nazism, and the outbrake and development of the Second World War. Much of her work was devoted to self-portraits, doing more than 100, in which, one can see the progression of time in her body, in her creations and in her artistic growth. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she witnessed her success in life. Besides loosing her youngest son, she saw the death of one of her grandchildren, she lived the allied advancing troops on Germany and also the bombings that destroyed the country, including her home and studio. She died on April 22, 1945, at Moritzburg, just days before the suicide of Hitler and the fall of