Edward Wadsworth
British artist, printmaker, and camoufleur (1889-1949)
Kathe Kollwitzwas a German artist who worked with painting, printmakingand sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class.
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Conrad Schmidt
Lisbeth Stern
Karl Kollwitz
Hans Kollwitz
Peter Kollwitz
Kathe Kollwitzwas a German artist who worked with painting, printmakingand sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class. Despite the realism of her early works, her art is now more closely associated with Expressionism. Kollwitz was the first woman not only to be elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts but also to receive honorary professor status.
It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
German printmaker and sculptor (1867-1945)
While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
German printmaker and sculptor (1867-1945)
Look at life with the eyes of a child.
German printmaker and sculptor (1867-1945)
I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
German printmaker and sculptor (1867-1945)
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
German printmaker and sculptor (1867-1945)
I do not want to die… until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
German printmaker and sculptor (1867-1945)
Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius – and I count myself among these – have to restore the lost connection once more.
German printmaker and sculptor (1867-1945)
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
German printmaker and sculptor (1867-1945)