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Käthe Kollwitz and the women of war : femininity, identity, and art in Germany during World Wars I and II

Title
Käthe Kollwitz and the women of war : femininity, identity, and art in Germany during World Wars I and II / edited by Claire C. Whitner.
Author
Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945
Publication
  • Wellesley, MA : Davis Museum at Wellesley College, [2016]
  • New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Whitner, Claire C.
  • Kets de Vries, Henriëtte
  • Davis Museum and Cultural Center, host institution.
  • Smith College. Museum of Art, host institution.
Description
143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Summary
The art of German printmaker and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) is famously empathetic; Kollwitz imbued her prints, drawings, and sculpture with eloquent and often painful commentary on the human condition, especially the horrors of war. This insightful book, the first English-language catalogue on Kollwitz in more than two decades, offers the singular opportunity to examine her work against the tumultuous backdrop of World Wars I and II. The societal cost of war became an enduring subject for Kollwitz after her youngest son died on the battlefield in Flanders in 1914. She dedicated much of the remainder of her career to creating images that questioned the efficacy of war, exposed its devastation, and promoted peace. The essays discuss the motifs she developed in this pursuit-young widows, grieving parents alongside maternal figures that serve as defenders, guardians, activists, and mourners-within the context of German visual culture from 1914 to 1945. 0Exhibition: Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA (16.09-20.12.2015) / Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, USA (29.01-29.05.2016).
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
Alternative Title
  • Works.
  • Femininity, identity, and art in Germany during World Wars I and II
Subject
  • Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945 > Exhibitions
  • Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945 > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
  • Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945
  • World War (1914-1918)
  • World War (1939-1945)
  • 1900-1999
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Germany > In art > Exhibitions
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Art and the war > Exhibitions
  • Motherhood in art > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, German > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, German
  • Motherhood in art
  • Themes, motives
  • Germany
Genre/Form
  • Art.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published in conjunction with the exhibitions The Krieg Cycle: Käthe Kollwitz and World War I, 16 September-13 December 2015 at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, curated by Claire C. Whitner; and Mothers' Arms: Käthe Kollwitz's Women and War at the Smith College Museum of Art, 29 January-29 May 2016, curated by Henriëtte Kets de Vries.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-137).
Contents
Directors' Foreword / Lisa Fischman and Jessica Nicoll -- Editor's Foreword / Claire C. Whitner -- Mothers' Arms: Käthe Kollwitz's Women and War / Henriëtte Kets de Vries -- "They were all deceived": Art, Women, and Propaganda in the Life and Work of Käthe Kollwitz / Joseph McVeigh -- Käthe Kollwitz and "Boasting Virility" at Smith College's Museum of Art / Darcy C. Buerkle -- Plates -- Käthe Kollwitz and the "Krieg" Cycle: The Genesis, Creation, and Legacy of an Iconic Print Series / Claire C. Whitner -- "Enough have died! No more shall perish!": Käthe Kollwitz and World War I / Annette Seeler; Claire C. Whitner, translator -- Grief Reserved for the Mother: Käthe Kollwitz's "Krieg" Cycle and Gender in the Weimar Republic / Anjeana K. Hans -- Works Cited -- Checklists.
Call Number
MDG (Kollwitz) 16-3472
ISBN
  • 9780300219999
  • 0300219997
LCCN
2015960686
OCLC
930798179
Author
Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945, artist.
Title
Käthe Kollwitz and the women of war : femininity, identity, and art in Germany during World Wars I and II / edited by Claire C. Whitner.
Publisher
Wellesley, MA : Davis Museum at Wellesley College, [2016]
Distributor
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-137).
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Whitner, Claire C., editor, organizer, writer of added commentary.
Kets de Vries, Henriëtte, organizer, writer of added commentary.
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, host institution.
Smith College. Museum of Art, host institution.
Research Call Number
MDG (Kollwitz) 16-3472
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