Book Description
A generation after her death, German artist Käthe Kollwitz is winning a reputation as one of the great graphic artists of the 20th century. Concentrating on the more democratic media — especially etchings, lithographs, posters, and woodcuts, as well as sculpture and bronze reliefs — Kollwitz always created for the people, rather than for the upper-class collector. Kollwitz’s women are joyous or grief-stricken, thoughtful or shielding mothers; forlorn, pregnant widows; tender friends; prostitutes; militant pacifists or revolutionaries in action. Martha Kearns establishes Kollwitz’s contributions with many striking, seldom-seen reproductions from private collections, assembled in one volume for the first time.

About the Author
MARTHA KEARNS is an art historian, playwright, and critic.