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Kollwitz was born in Königsberg, Prussia, as the fifth child in her family.Her father, Karl Schmidt, was a Social Democrat who became a mason and house builder. Her mother, Katherina Schmidt, was the daughter of Julius Rupp, [8] a Lutheran pastor who was expelled from the official Evangelical State Church and founded an independent congregation. [9]
The original is hosted at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne. [1] Kollwitz's Pietà differs from classic Pietà representations in that the dead son does not rest on his mother's knees, but rather lies crouching on the ground between her legs. He is embraced by the figure of the mother and looks more like a child seeking protection in his ...
Woman With Dead Child is a 1903 etching by Käthe Kollwitz. Its subject was influenced by her experiences in an underserved sector of Berlin as a physician's wife where disease and infant mortality rate were high. [1] The image is often considered as Käthe Kollwitz's most famous depiction of war. [2]
Johannes Carl August Kollwitz was born in to a large family where he and his sister Lisbeth were the only his parents' nine children. After the father's early death his mother sent her nine-year-old son to one of the Königsberg orphanages, from which Karl Kollwitz later attended the Royal Wilhelm Gymnasium in Königsberg.
Hans Kollwitz; M. Mother with her Dead Son This page was last edited on 17 August 2024, at 21:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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The Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln was founded in 1985 on the occasion of the first presentation of the Käthe Kollwitz Collection of the Kreissparkasse Köln on 22 April 1985, the 40th anniversary of the death of the artist. [2] This presentation took place in the former boardroom of the bank.