Kathe Kollwitz
Kindersterben (Infant Mortality) from the Proletariat series, 1925
Emile Nolde
"Prophet" woodcut ,1912
Käthe Kollwitz
- She was born on July 8, 1867, Königsberg, East Prussia
- In 1891 she married Karl Kollwitz, a doctor who opened a clinic in a working-class section of Berlin
- She travelled to Paris in 1904, frequented museums and galleries, studied sculpture at the Académie Julian, twice visited Rodin, and met the social satirist Théophile Steinlen.
- She died onApril 22, 1945, near Dresden, Germany
INFANT MORTALITY
- Kollwitz effectively accepted Klinger's challenge to develop an epic suite of images linked by ideas, which confronted difficult themes of poverty, infant mortality, violent rebellion, and retaliatory slaughter
- image size: 356x275mm
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