Käthe Kollwitz (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: H. Arthur Klein, Mina C. Klein
- First Published: 1972
- Time of Work: 1867–1945
- Setting: Berlin, Germany
- Principal Characters: Käthe Kollwitz, Karl Kollwitz, Peter Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz, Emma Jeep, Ernst Barlach, Max Liebermann, Lina Stern
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Art or artists, Creative process, Nazism or Nazis, Sculpting or sculptors, Germany or German people, Biography, Pacifism, Persecution
- Locales: Berlin, Germany
Form and Content
Käthe Kollwitz: Life in Art, by Mina C. Klein and H. Arthur Klein, is the moving narrative of a woman’s courageous attempt to become an artist at a time when women were expected to be wives and mothers, excluding all other goals and setting aside the enthusiasms of their youth. At the same time, the book depicts Germany’s failed struggle for world hegemony, while offering a convincing witness to one woman’s pacifist convictions. “Never again war” is the motto that runs through the work and life of Kollwitz, a conviction only strengthened by...
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