{"id":7471,"date":"2022-04-05T11:55:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/?p=7471"},"modified":"2022-09-22T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:23:52","slug":"kaethe-kollwitz-studio-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/news\/kaethe-kollwitz-studio-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u00e4the Kollwitz \u2013 Studio exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“There are three things important to me in my life: that I have had children, that I have had such a faithful life companion, and my work.”<\/span> <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

K\u00e4the Kollwitz to her son, January 1926
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[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]from April 1, 2022 until the end of June 2022<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The last months at the Fasanen\u00adstrasse 24 location have begun and the museum is saying good\u00adbye with works by K\u00e4the Kollwitz on all three ex\u00adhibition floors. In addition to the chrono\u00adlogically presented show on the life and work of K\u00e4the Kollwitz, which shows the four large print cycles of the artist on the first and third floors, a differentiated view of Kollwitz’s art is possible on the second floor.<\/p>\n

With study sheets, pre\u00adliminary drawings, and proofs, the museum provides an in\u00adsight into the artist’s work\u00adshop using the example of the “Gedenk\u00adblatt f\u00fcr Karl Liebknecht” (In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht) and shows her intensive involve\u00adment with the technique of wood\u00adcutting, which was new to her at the time.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_single_image image=”7444″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_single_image image=”7446″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]The years after the First World War were marked by politi\u00adcal conflicts and up\u00adheavals. The need among the popu\u00adlation was great and hunger was omni\u00adpresent, especially in working-class families. K\u00e4the Kollwitz began to get more in\u00advolved in actions against hunger, war and poverty in the 1920s. She produced numerous posters and leaf\u00adlets, in\u00adcluding “Deutschlands Kinder hungern!” (Germany’s Children are Starving!) in 1923 as an appeal for donations for the Inter\u00adnationale Arbeiter\u00adhilfe Berlin (Inter\u00adnational Workers’ Aid Berlin) and the anti-war poster “Die \u00dcberlebenden” (The Survivors), published by the Inter\u00adnational Trade Union Confederation Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

The artist had to pain\u00adfully work out her clear stance against the war. At the out\u00adbreak of war in the summer of 1914, she persuaded her hus\u00adband to allow their younger son Peter, who was not yet of age, to become a war volun\u00adteer. Many artists and intellec\u00adtuals of the time joined in this war euphoria. For example, the gallery owner Paul Cassirer published a graphic magazine, “Kriegs\u00adzeit – K\u00fcnstler\u00adflug\u00adbl\u00e4tter”. Initially appearing weekly, the paper published literary texts and litho\u00adgraphs on the events of the war, which completely followed the official pronounce\u00adments on the war and its course. Renowned artists of the Berlin Secession such as Max Liebermann, August Gaul and Ernst Barlach contributed to the publi\u00adcation. K\u00e4the Kollwitz also contributed a litho\u00adgraph and thematized the female view of the events of the war. Her work “Das Bangen” depicts the sorrows of women who had to let sons, husbands and brothers go to war. The print was published in the 10th issue on October 28, 1914, a few days later K\u00e4the and Karl Kollwitz were informed of the death of their son Peter.
\nIn the studio exhibition, the museum shows a small selection of the artistic works for the “war time”, in\u00adcluding Liebermann, Gaul and Barlach, as well as fellow artists Dora Hitz and Hedwig Wei\u00df[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2890″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_column_text]In the graphics of this period, K\u00e4the Kollwitz addressed the precarious economic situation of many women and mothers who tried to keep their heads above water by working from home or were even dependent on urban shelter.<\/p>\n

In addition to the often worry\u00ading motifs, the artist was also inter\u00adested in the natural con\u00adnection bet\u00adween mother and child – in loving together\u00adness, in every\u00adday situations or while breast\u00adfeeding. Kollwitz brought the mother-child motif out of the two-dimensional drawing into the plastic, first in smaller groups of figures such as “Mother with Child over Her Shoulder” or “Woman with Child in Her Lap”, and finally in the large plastic group “Mother with Two Children”.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″]

<\/div>[vc_single_image image=”1724″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”3517″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Family plays a major role in K\u00e4the Kollwitz’s work, but portraits of her own family are less common. The artist’s works of her hus\u00adband and siblings in her later years, which the museum presents together in the studio ex\u00adhibition, are all the more im\u00adpressive.<\/p>\n

The artist repeatedly por\u00adtrayed herself, so that there are a large number of self-portraits in a wide variety of graphic techniques and from all phases of her life. In addition, K\u00e4the Kollwitz also inspired other artists to deal with her physio\u00adgnomy. On the occasion of the fare\u00adwell to Fasanenstrasse, the museum is showing portraits of the artist from its own collection, which others worked on of her. Among them is an im\u00adpressive bust of Kollwitz by the sculptor Hans Breker, donated last summer by the artist’s daughter.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”7465″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”img_link_large”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]

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\u201cThere are three things important to me in my life: that I have had children, that I have had such a faithful life companion, and my work.\u201d
\n(K\u00e4the Kollwitz to her son, January 1926)<\/p>\n

Works by the artist on all exhibition floors with a special show on the 2nd floor<\/p>\n

from April 1, 2022 to say goodbye to Fasanenstra\u00dfe 24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-exhibition","category-news","category-95","category-14","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7471"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7765,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions\/7765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}