{"id":10927,"date":"2024-11-05T14:55:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T13:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2024-11-05T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:00:11","slug":"the-world-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/news\/the-world-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"The world artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row type=”vc_default” gap=”35″][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1730723526836{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]LECTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n

on November 14, 2024\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The reception of K\u00e4the Kollwitz in Asia<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1730723557004{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]The work of K\u00e4the Kollwitz is also highly regarded outside Europe. In Asia, the unmistakable language of her graphic works left a lasting impression.<\/p>\n

The artist herself harboured a great desire to travel to India together with her husband Karl Kollwitz, as evidenced by several diary entries such as the following one from August 1925. However, for reasons unknown to us, they did not embark on the journey and the country remained merely a place of longing for the artist.<\/p>\n

“The idea of India is already firmly in my mind, even with Karl.<\/em> (…) It’s possible that India will revitalise me so much that I’ll be much fresher for work afterwards – it’s possible I’ll catch malaria and won’t be able to do anything afterwards.”<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”10902″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1730723574002{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]We do not know where K\u00e4the Kollwitz’ longing for India came from. She could possibly have met the famous Indian poet, philosopher and painter Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), who was in Berlin from 11 to 17 July 1930. His watercolours and drawings were shown in a solo exhibition at the Ferdinand M\u00f6ller Gallery in Berlin-Sch\u00f6neberg. Afterwards, Tagore donated selected paintings to the National Gallery, as he noted in a letter to the director Ludwig Justi. On 14 July 1930, he visited the world-famous physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) at his summer house in Caputh, a small suburb of Potsdam. Here, too, an encounter with K\u00e4the Kollwitz could not be ruled out, as there is evidence of at least one stay at Einstein’s summer house. The artist was often in Caputh because Max Immanuel, a friend of her son Hans, owned a summer house there, which she and her family liked to visit.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1730723596015{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]Lu Xun (1881-1936), China’s most important writer of the 20th century, acquired works by K\u00e4the Kollwitz with the help of the American journalist Agnes Smedley (1892-1950). In the 1930s, he published numerous works by the artist and helped her name to achieve great renown in China. Agnes Smedley, who had campaigned for the Indian independence movement against England from 1918, had already published an extensive article on K\u00e4the Kollwitz and her important work entitled Germany’s Artist of Social Misery<\/em> in August 1925 in the important Indian magazine Modern Review<\/em>, which was published in Calcutta at the time.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1730813788086{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]The topic of Kollwitz and Asia is so diverse that Southeast Asia expert Werner Kraus<\/strong> focused entirely on the artist’s impact in China in his lecture on March 14, 2024. Following from this, his second lecture on November 14, 2024<\/strong>, is now dedicated\u00a0to K\u00e4the Kollwitz’ presence in Pakistan, India and Indonesia<\/strong>, as the newspaper clipping from the Sumatra Post of 1937 shown here exemplifies.<\/p>\n

Dr. Werner Kraus studied Southeast Asian Studies at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg and at the Modern Indonesia Project of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. In 1984, he co-founded the Chair of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Passau. Kraus is currently director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Art, a private research and documentation center.<\/p>\n

The collection presentation can be visited until the start of the lecture at 7 pm.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”11838″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Illustration of the \u2018Klein Zelfportret\u2019 (Small Self-Portrait, 1920) in the Sumatra Post, 10-16 September 1937<\/em><\/p>\n

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Workshop<\/p>\n

DRUCKWERKSTATT<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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12.00 bis 15.00 Uhr<\/strong><\/p>\n

K\u00e4the Kollwitz hat nicht nur Bilder gezeichnet, sondern auch Druckgraphiken hergestellt – zum Beispiel f\u00fcr Flugbl\u00e4tter und Plakate, wie ihr ber\u00fchmtes Plakat “Nie wieder Krieg!”.<\/p>\n

Im Workshop gibt es n\u00e4heres \u00fcber k\u00fcnstlerische Drucktechniken zu erfahren, Bildbeispiele von K\u00e4the Kollwitz in der Ausstellung zu sehen und die gro\u00dfe Ausdruckskraft dieser Bildsprache kennenzulernen. Anschlie\u00dfend k\u00f6nnen eigene Werke mit einem \u00e4hnlichen Verfahren gestaltet und sich dabei so richtig ausgedruckt werden!<\/p>\n

Der Workshop wird in Kooperation mit Jugend Im Museum<\/em>\u00a0e.V. angeboten.<\/p>\n

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Drop-In-Angebot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bringen Sie min. 1 Stunde Arbeits\u00adzeit mit.
\nZeit\u00ad\u00adgleich k\u00f6nnen maximal\u00a0drei Familien oder\u00a0Haus\u00ad\u00adhalte teil\u00ad\u00adnehmen.<\/p>\n

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Sprachen:<\/b> Deutsch, Spanisch<\/p>\n

Altersempfehlung:<\/b> Ab 8 Jahren<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Digitaler Begleiter<\/p>\n

KOLLWITZ-GUIDE<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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11.00 bis 16.00 Uhr<\/strong><\/p>\n

Individuell und anspruchsvoll begleitet, kann man kontaktlos mit dem Kollwitz-Guide<\/strong> durch die R\u00e4ume der Dauerausstellung streifen.<\/p>\n

Mit spannenden kulturhistorischen und biografischen Hintergrundinformationen werden die Zeichnungen, Graphiken und Plastiken von K\u00e4the Kollwitz in den zeitlichen Kontext gesetzt.<\/p>\n

Der Multimedia-Guide ist bequem auf dem eigenen Smartphone im Browser zu \u00f6ffnen \u2013 eine App zu installieren ist nicht notwendig.<\/p>\n

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Sprachen:<\/b> Englisch, Deutsch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lecture about the reception of K\u00e4the Kollwitz in Asia by East Asia expert Dr. Werner Kraus<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 14, 2024
\n19.00
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