Käthe Kollwitz and the women of war femininity, identity, and art in Germany during World Wars I and II

The art of German printmaker and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) is famously empathetic; Kollwitz imbued her prints, drawings, and sculpture with eloquent and often painful commentary on the human condition, especially the horrors of war. This insightful book, the first English-language catalogu...

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Other Authors: Whitner, Claire C. (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Wellesley, MA Davis Museum at Wellesley College [2016]
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505 0 |a Directors' Foreword / Lisa Fischman and Jessica Nicoll -- Editor's Foreword / Claire C. Whitner -- Mothers' Arms : Käthe Kollwitz's Women and War / Henriëtte Kets de Vries -- "They were all deceived" : Art, Women, and Propaganda in the Life and Work of Käthe Kollwitz / Joseph McVeigh -- Käthe Kollwitz and "Boasting Virility" at Smith College's Museum of Art / Darcy C. Buerkle -- Plates -- Käthe Kollwitz and the "Krieg" Cycle : The Genesis, Creation, and Legacy of an Iconic Print Series / Claire C. Whitner -- "Enough have died! No more shall perish!" : Käthe Kollwitz and World War I / Annette Seeler; Claire C. Whitner, translator -- Grief Reserved for the Mother : Käthe Kollwitz's "Krieg" Cycle and Gender in the Weimar Republic / Anjeana K. Hans -- Works Cited -- Checklists. 
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