Käthe Kollwitz - ACE107.2

Reflections in water. Woman walking through woods. VO talking about the weather being dreary. "My work consists now in faithfully following the course of each day and keeping an account of it. I note down how the clouds drift, which way the wind blows, and so I trace the course of the days... I have not been able to work for months… My deepest desire is no longer to live…" The Call of Death (1934). "The unquenchable longing for death remains." Lake. Caption: "Käthe Kollwitz died in Moritzburg, near Dresden, on 22 April 1945. She was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, in 1867 and lived for most of her working life in Berlin. These extracts for her diaries and letters are interpreted by the actress Brenda Bruce." An etching of the young Käthe. Lithograph of The Artist’s Parents (1931). Variations on The Volunteers (1922) apparently inspired by Ferdinand Freiligrath’s poem The Dead to the Living. Kollwitz talks about making sketches of sailors’ bars near the Pregel, and of working people. Hamburger Kneipe (1901), Self-portrait Seated at a Table (1893) and others. Kollwitz talking about art training: not being able to go to the Academy because she was female, having private tuition. Self-Portrait. Talks about her engagement which upset her father’s plans; she was sent to Munich in 1889. Other work including two Self Portraits. Kollwitz talks about all her work being anecdotal, narrative art. Moved to Berlin in 1891. Children born 1892 and 1896. Family group and another Self Portrait. Kollwitz talks about the premiere of Gerhart Hauptmann’s The Weavers (1893), which induced her to stop working on her series Germinal and start on lithographs and etchings for A Weaver’s Uprising (1893-1897).