On the anniversary of Käthe Kollwitz’s death
The great artist died 79 years ago today on April 22, 1945 in Moritzburg near Dresden. The news of her death was lost in the confusion of the last days of the war and the liberation by the Allies; it was not until the summer that the news reached the general public. In destroyed Berlin, her adopted home, an extensive Käthe Kollwitz memorial exhibition was organized for the autumn of the same year…