Prints and Drawings of Käthe Kollwitz (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

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“The Weavers,” a landmark of class-conscious art, which depicts, in a series of prints, the plight of the worker and his age-long struggle to better his lot. “Death as a Friend,” showing a man greeting his death as an old friend, with a hysterical mixture of joy and terror. “The People,” by which a mother shields her offspring from phantoms of hate, poverty, and lack of know-how — and symbolizes woman as author, begetter of the human race, link between past and future.
These works represent the recurrent themes which most characterize the work of Käthe Kollwitz: social consciousness and a sense of the suffering of mankind, an urge to voice the basic maternal attitude, and a preoccupation with death. She has been referred to as a propagandist, a crusader, yet her art is essentially apolitical. Her concern was once not with partisan causes, but relatively with universal rights.
Fundamentally a dramatic artist, Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) brought to each and every of her works an uncanny ability to evoke human emotions through subtle gestures and facial expressions. The reactions of her characters were psychologically true primarily because she tested them on herself.
The present collection comprises 83 of Mrs. Kollwitz’s finest works, including the last great print cycles: “The Weavers” of 1898; “The Peasant War” of 1908; “War” of 1925; and “Death” of 1935. These selections provide a full panorama of Mrs. Kollwitz’s development as a master of the graphic techniques of etching, woodcutting and lithography. Over 69 of the illustrations have been rephotographed from the original works specially for this edition, and new techniques in photolithography and a larger format have resulted in reproductions which might be as close as imaginable to the prints and drawings themselves.

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