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Kollwitz

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Koll·witz  (klwts, kôlvts), Käthe or Kaethe 1867-1945.
German artist whose sculptures and prints, including The Living to the Dead (1919), express her abhorrence of war and poverty.


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Trina Schart Hyman emphasizes the stories' vivid imagery in her collage portraits, incorporating photographs, sheep's wool, toilet paper, cheesecloth, and even, for Kuan Yin, images from the art of Kathe Kollwitz.
We think museums are increasingly beholden to rich donors whose taste is often conservative," says a group member who uses the name Kathe Kollwitz, paying tribute to a German artist whose work came to prominence at the turn of the 20th century and was later banned by the Nazi regime.
Having lost a son in World War I, the great German artist Kathe Kollwitz was avowedly anti-war but equally committed to what she called 'a new idea--that of the brotherhood of man'.
 
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