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Portrait of the artist : Käthe Kollwitz

Title: Portrait of the artist : Käthe Kollwitz / Frances Carey, Max Egremont.
Author: Carey, Frances (Art historian)
Publication: Birmingham : Ikon Gallery in collaboration with the British Museum, [2017]

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Description

155 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (color); 28 cm

Summary

Käthe Kollwitz (1867?1945) developed a mastery of graphic art which quickly established her reputation in Germany, then further afield as her influence spread internationally after the First World War. Establishing herself in an art world dominated by men, Kollwitz developed a vision centred on women and the working class. 'Portrait of the Artist' looks at her work through the exploration of self-portraits and portraits of working women, her two great series concerned with social injustice: Ein Weberaufstand (A Weavers' Revolt, 1897) and Bauernkrieg (Peasants' War, 1908), the ever-present imagery of death, especially a mother's grief, and finally the theme of war and remembrance after her younger son, Peter, had been killed at the beginning of the First World War. The exhibition is drawn from the collection of the British Museum and is complemented by a small number of loans from a private owner and The Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham.

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Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-153) and index.

Call Number

JQF 18-1361

ISBN

9781911155140
1911155148

LCCN

2017479975

OCLC

1010534945

Author

Carey, Frances (Art historian), author.

Title

Portrait of the artist : Käthe Kollwitz / Frances Carey, Max Egremont.

Publisher

Birmingham : Ikon Gallery in collaboration with the British Museum, [2017]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-153) and index.

Added Author

Egremont, Max, 1948- author.

Ikon Gallery, associated with work.

British Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-1361

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