Käthe KollwitzKäthe Kollwitz was born in 1867 in Königsberg, then a Province of Prussia. She was one of the first women to formally study art at the academy, studying under Karl Stauffer-Bern. She studied at the Woman’s Art School in Munich in 1888, shifting from painting to printmaking. In 1890 she returned to Königsberg, then moved to Berlin in 1891, where she would remain for the rest of her career, because her Husband, a physician who worked with the poor. In 1933, when the NAZI party seized power in Germany, she was forced to resign from the national art school, the Akademie der Künste, and she was declared one of the “Degenerate artists” and her work was removed from museums and used by the Nazis for propaganda. By 1936, the Gestapo was threatening to ship her to a concentration camp, but did not because she was a prominent international artist. As the war progressed, she was forced to leave Berlin, ultimately staying with Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony in Moritzburg, near Dresden, where she died.   |
Artist on view in the Permanent Collection Gallery
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