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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD KOLLWITZ

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PRONUNCIATION OF KOLLWITZ

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KOLLWITZ

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WHAT DOES KOLLWITZ MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war. Initially her work was grounded in Naturalism, and later took on Expressionistic qualities.

Definition of Kollwitz in the English dictionary

The definition of Kollwitz in the dictionary is Käthe. 1867–1945, German lithographer and sculptress.

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KOLLWITZ»

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The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
Personal writings by the German artist trace her development as a sculptor, recounts her family life, and are accompanied by a selection of her drawings and sculpture
Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz, 1988
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Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist
A biography of the increasingly acclaimed German artist stresses her relationships with and attitudes toward women and the place of women in her paintings and prints
Martha Kearns, 1976
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Käthe Kollwitz
'Provides important information on the life and art of one of the twentieth century's most influential figurative artists .
Elizabeth Prelinger, Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), 1992
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Prints and Drawings of Käthe Kollwitz
Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings. New York: 1959. BONUS, ARTHUR. Das Kaethe Kollwitz-Werk. Mit einführendem Text von Arthur Bonus. Dresden: 1925. DERI, MAX. Sonder-Ausstellung Kaethe Kollwitz zu ihrem 50. Geburtstag, Apr.-Mai, 1917.
Käthe Kollwitz, Carl Zigrosser, 2012
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An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body
Drawing on recent theories of embodiment developed within feminist philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, the essays reveal how the permeable boundaries between nature and culture, the female body and technology are being crossed in the work ...
Rosemary Betterton, 2013
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Prints and Drawings of K鑑the Kollwitz
A catalog of the German artist's work is critically introduced in an essay which illuminates her social consciousness
Käthe Kollwitz, Carl Zigrosser, 1969
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Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to ...
A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present Bernard A. Cook. Kollwitz, Kathe Kollwitz, Kathe Korczak, Rozka Korea: Comfort Women Korea: Comfort Women. | Alexandra (Aleksandra Mikhailovna) Kollontai. (Hulton Archive/Getty ...
Bernard A. Cook
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John Piper: The Forties
Iconography of Human Conflict Kathe Kollwitz, Paul Klee, Jankel Adler, Isaac Celnikier In the dense shade of Kathe Kollwitz's Battlefield, 1 907, a grief-stricken mother bends over a sea of corpses, her dim torch held against the raised head of ...
David Fraser Jenkins, 2000
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Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic
Kathe Kollwitz and Berlin's Women Sculptors in the Discourse on Intellectual Motherhood and the Myth of Masculinity Ute Seiderer Two Berlin sculptors, two museums dedicated to their work, two entirely different worlds: Kathe Kollwitz and  ...
Christiane Schönfeld, 2006
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Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by ...
Mother. (with Dominique Rozenberg) In the course of her long career as a visual artist, Käthe Kollwitz chose most often to portray the human body in its female form, emphasizing the female's maternal aspects, but also treating her militant and ...
Estella Lauter, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KOLLWITZ»

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Yonia Fain, a Holocaust survivor considered a “witness to history,” is represented, along with artists such as George Grosz, Käthe Kollwitz, and ... «liherald.com, Jul 15»
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BERLIN: Imagine a City by Rory MacLean
And then there is Käthe Kollwitz who embarked upon a riveting artistic odyssey and was denounced by the Nazis as culturally degenerate. «Geographical, Jun 15»
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Queen meets Angela Merkel on visit to Berlin
The sculpture at its centre, which stands under an oculus, is an enlarged replica of a work by Kathe Kollwitz, who sculpted it after she lost her ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Rangeley's Wilhelm Reich Museum is opening for season
Forty-six original paintings by Reich, several original drawings and a Kaethe Kollwitz woodcut, scientific charts and an original blueprint are ... «Lewiston Sun Journal, Jun 15»
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GuitarFest 10 Ends Dramatically
That work was Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände), Boston College composer Ralf Gawlick's Op. 19, for guitar and voice. Soprano ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
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Artwork stolen from Leicester's New Walk Museum
“A small print, entitled Self-portrait 1920, by Kathe Kollwitz, was taken from New Walk Museum and Art Gallery on Friday 29 May,” said a ... «Museums Association, Jun 15»
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The Guitar as an Orchestra
but refers also to the Kollwitz-Konnex, Boston College composer Ralf Gawlick's monumental song cycle for soprano and guitar inspired by ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
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German Expressionist Kollwitz print stolen from Leicester's New …
The work - "Self portrait 1920" by Kathe Kollwitz - was taken on May 29. ... confirm that a small framed print by Kathe Kollwitz has been stolen. «Leicester Mercury, Jun 15»
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Berlin, Leery of One Bush, Prepares to Meet Jeb
... Wagner, a 32-year-old teacher, had a pile of notebooks to grade as she enjoyed the sunshine in a park named after the artist Käthe Kollwitz, ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
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Man dies following alleged assault in Catherine Street, Leicester
German Expressionist Kollwitz print stolen from Leicester's New Walk Museum · Springwatch sticklebacks gain celebrity status with help of ... «Leicester Mercury, Jun 15»

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