As I was saying in my previous post, Kathe Kollwitz was a pretty amazing person. She faced get adversity ( in simple terms she was hated on by the Kaiser pre WW1, then after WW1 she was hated on by the communists, the socialist coalition government which was influenced by the monarchists, and then hated on by the Nazis. ) In addition she suffered many personal tragedies, the death of her son in WW1, the death of her grandson in WW2 and the death of her husband. Her work was extremely personal to her because of this. She was set apart due to her political views and also because she was female. From 1933 onwards Kollwitz like many other leftists began to lose everything, she was forced out of her position at the Prussian Academy, she was questioned and threatened by the Gestapo, her artwork was banned and put into the Nazis Degenerate art show or Entartete Kunst. Her husband was banned from working as a doctor in Berlin. Her large sculpture studio at the academy was trashed and her family home and studio was bombed during the Berlin Bombing meaning much of her work was lost or destroyed along with her personal items. Kollwitz’s last series of works concerned her relationship with death. Kollwitz was no stranger to portraying death, exploring her own mortality and it can be seen in her artwork that she had anticipated her own death. One of these such works is a simple charcoal drawing showing Kollwitz reaching up to death beckoning hand. Kollwitz died just before the end of the war in 1945. From her own death at the end of her career to revolution at the beginning of her career. Kollwitz told the stories of the people of Germany who went against the tide and those who were drowning in it. She was one of a few artists who chose this subject matter within Germany at this time while others concentrated on the glitz and glamour of the highly lucrative art deco lifestyle.
Here is a link to the page on the Moma website all about Kathe Kollwitz :
http://www.moma.org/collection_ge/browse_results.php?criteria=O:AD:E:3201|A:AR:E:1&role=1 ( HESS, H. Kathe Kollwitz bio. accessed 25.9.2013.)
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