Käthe Kollwitz
1867–1945 · Expressionism · 8 works
Käthe Kollwitz was born in Königsberg in 1867 and worked in Berlin, where her husband Karl was a doctor in a working-class district. She gave up painting for prints and drawings about the lives of poor and working people. In 1919 she became the first woman member of the Prussian Academy of Arts.
8 works · 1905–1925
1905–1915 · 4 works
Walk these 4Two artists in two cities, in the same decade. In Paris, Amedeo Modigliani painted the artists, dealers and partners around him with long faces and almond eyes. In Berlin, Käthe Kollwitz made prints of her own face, before and after her son Peter was killed in 1914. Compare how each builds a face from line and tone.
In the museum: School of Paris room · 2 works
1921–1925 · 4 works
Walk these 4
Alexej von Jawlensky
Murnau, 1910
Egon Schiele
Head of a Woman, 1908
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Poster for Die Brücke, 1907
