Käthe Kollwitz - ACE107.3

Kollwitz etching. VO says the Academy Jury voted the series a gold medal; though this was vetoed by the Kaiser, she was "counted among the foremost artists of the country". Images from The Peasants’ War series (1902-1908). Kollwitz talking about her reputation as a Socialist artist, says she was in constant contact with the working classes because of her husband Karl’s clinic. Various images of working class and similar subjects including The Downtrodden (1900), Working Woman with Blue Shawl (1903), Litho (1909), Thinking Woman (1920), etc. Woman with Lowered Head (1946-1948). Kollwitz walking in Berlin. Tenement buildings. VO talking about the problems faced by working class men and women. Junges Paar and part of The Downtrodden. Various images of death including Woman with Dead Child (1903) and Death Snatches a Child from its Mother (1911). Military cemetery. VO talking about her younger son, Peter, being killed in the First World War, and about making his gravestone. After the war. Sketches for Solidarity: the Propeller Song (1932). VO talks about being a Communist and of the murders of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht: studies for and finished woodcut of Memorial for Karl Liebknecht (1919).