Kathe Kollwitz is regarded as one of the most important German artists of the twentieth century‚ and as a remarkable woman who created timeless art works against the backdrop of a life of great sorrow‚ hardship and heartache. Kathe was born in 1867 in Konigsberg‚ East Prussia (now Kalingrad in Russia). She studied art in Berlin and began producing etchings in 1880 In 1881 she married Dr Karl Kollwitz and they settled in a working class area of north Berlin. In 1896 her second son‚ Peter‚ was born
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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
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Käthe Kollwitz was born on 8th July 1867 in Kaliningrad‚ Russia. Her father‚ Karl Schmidt‚ studied law‚ but because of his political and social views he never worked as a lawyer. He was a stone mason and house builder. Her mother‚ Katharina‚ was the daughter of Julius Rupp‚ the leader of the Free Congregation. By religion and socialism lessons her grandfather strongly influenced her education. Her parents were encouraging their children in political and social life. When she was twelve years old
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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
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Week 8 Assignment 2: Self Portrait By: James Roppel II Professor Michael Briere HUM 111 September 4‚ 2012 My self portrait would be the combination of Michelangelo (sketch of a male head‚ in two positions)‚ and the abstract self portrait of Stanton MacDonald-Wright (1890-1973). Stanton MacDonald-Wright collaborating with Morgan Russell developed “Synchronism”. An “aesthetic philosophy upon modernist theories of perception“. My portrait would show signs of Synchronism‚ a color based style that
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Drawing the Color Line Drawing the Color Line by Howard Zinn the second chapter from A People’s history of the United States. The authors writes this chapter to explain racism and how it started‚ “a continent were we can trace the coming of the first whites and the first blacks-might supply at least a few clues” he wants to use history to try to explain why it started. In this chapter Howard Zinn gives us an insight on Slavery and racism in the early 17th century of America. This chapter does
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Background Information: Intro: Drawing the Color Line shows the development of racism in our country and how our society has lowered people of a different race other than caucasian to be the "have-not’s" of society. Background Information: Sometimes it is noted that‚ even before 1600‚ when the slave trade had just begun‚ before Africans were stamped by it—literally and symbolically—the color black was distasteful. In England‚ before 1600‚ it meant‚ according to the Oxford English Dictionary:
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to the Americas to be sold for a profitable amount in order to work the plantations and to be a slave to their white masters for the rest of their lives gaining increasing and wealth for their masters. Zinn explains all of this in Chp 2‚ “Drawing the Color Line.” He explains the mistreatment and punishment that blacks encountered during the time of slavery and the physical and psychological effects that blacks were compelled to endure for the countless years of slavery and downright brutality. Slavery
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Albrecht Durer and Kathe Kollwitz were both notable artists. One left its mark during the Renaissance period and the other almost 400 years later. They had a major impression in the growth of German art; they were both highly talented and began to practice art very early in their lives. In addition to this‚ they were unique and because they didn’t follow the norm they excelled. This paper is going to look at the similarities and differences between Durer and Kollwitz in respect to their artistic
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Ryan Foley Humanities 101 Self Portrait Paper September 28‚ 2013 Born April 15‚ 1452 in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci‚ was born with no surname his full name being "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci"‚ meaning "Leonardo‚ son of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci." Little is known of Leonardo’s early up bringing besides him spending his first five years of life in the household of his father‚ grandparents and uncle‚ Francesco‚ in the small town of Vinci. His father had married a sixteen-year-old girl
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