Käthe Kollwitz - ACE107.5

Nuremberg. German eagle. Recording of voice announcing Hitler. Kollwitz writing that she and Heinrich Mann are being forced to leave the Berlin Academy because of signing an anti-Nazi manifesto. Talks about some of her work being removed from the National Gallery. Pietà (1938). Tower of Mothers. Memorials to people who died in concentration camps. Kollwitz in Jewish cemetery. VO talks of her interrogation by Gestapo because of an article in Izvestia. Talks about her work being omitted from the Academy show. Tomb of Franz Levy; Kollwitz’s drawing of the design (1937). Sculpture of Mother with Twins 1924-1927. Bronze reliefs of similar image, and other pieces. Death Seizes the Children (1934), Death and the Woman (1934), The Call of Death (1934), etc. VO talks about trying to do a series on the theme of death. VO announces that Karl has died (1940). Charcoals faces. Kollwitz making charcoal version of Seed for the Planting Must Not Be Ground (1942); VO describing the "story" of the picture. Ruined tenement buildings. VO talking about bombing and wanting "an end to this madness". Self-Portrait in Profile Facing Right (1938). The lake. VO talks about nearing the end of life, pleased that her work had an effect. "Without struggle, there is no life." Credits with fragment of archive film of Käthe Kollwitz.