155 pages illustrations (some color), maps (color) 28 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2017
Notes:
Exhibition catalogue for _Portrait of an Artist: Kathe Kollwitz_, Ikon Gallery, Sepember 13 through November 20, 2017
HMSG copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Kathe Kollwitz / Max Egremont -- Kathe Kollwitz the Artist / Frances Carey -- Glossary / Frances Carey -- Exhibited Works / Frances Carey -- Self-Portraits -- A Weavers' Revolt -- Single Subjects -- Death and the Mother -- Peasants' War -- Woodcuts, War and Remembrance
Summary:
Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) developed a mastery of graphic art which quickly established her reputation in Germany, then further afield as her influence spread internationally after the First World War. Establishing herself in an art world dominated by men, Kollwitz developed a vision centred on women and the working class. 'Portrait of the Artist' looks at her work through the exploration of self-portraits and portraits of working women, her two great series concerned with social injustice: Ein Weberaufstand (A Weavers' Revolt, 1897) and Bauernkrieg (Peasants' War, 1908), the ever-present imagery of death, especially a mother's grief, and finally the theme of war and remembrance after her younger son, Peter, had been killed at the beginning of the First World War. The exhibition is drawn from the collection of the British Museum and is complemented by a small number of loans from a private owner and The Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham
