Käthe Kollwitz Artist

Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war. Initially her work was grounded in Naturalism, and later took on Expressionistic qualities.

Personal facts

Käthe Kollwitz
Birth dateJuly 08, 1867
Birth place
Russia , Kaliningrad , Prussia , Königsberg
Nationality
Germany
Date of deathApril 22, 1945
Place of death
Moritzburg

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