“There are many women artists. But there is hardly any other who [is] so independent and […] who has increased mankind’s sculptural wealth so greatly as Käthe Kollwitz has done.”
Curt Glaser (Berliner Börsen-Courier, 1927)
Curt Glaser (Berliner Börsen-Courier, 1927)
In her early work, Käthe Kollwitz was inspired by literary works. She achieved great recognition as early as 1898 with her first graphic cycle — “A Weavers’ Revolt” — inspired by a drama by Gerhart Hauptmann.