Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz: Self-portrait

1867 Konigsberg, East Prussia - 1945 Moritzburg, Germany. Known for: Etching, lithography, woodcut-figures.

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The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher of Laguna Woods, California:. Kaethe Kollwitz was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia in 1867. The family name was Schmidt, and they were cultivated, middle class people who considered a talent to be a duty. Her art education began in 1881; she began studying with Rudolph Mauer, a local engraver. At seventeen, she enrolled in the School for Women Artists in Berlin. Her early studies, which reveal a developing social consciousess, depicted workers engaged in manual labor. In 1885, she became engaged to a medical student, Karl Kollwitz, who was also a member of the Social Democratic Party. Over the next fifty years, her husband's practice exposed her to... Read full biography

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Type:Sculpture

Year:1936

Size:15.20" x 11.20"

Medium:Other

Signed:Signed

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A great sculpture by the artist Kathe Kollwitz, made of zinc, and made in 1936 in Germany. Signed by the artist and also the workshop. Signed Stamp foundry "Kollwitz. H. NOACK BERLIN FREIDENAU" / verso Von Heliborn page 87.

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