Kääthe Kollwitz's Witness to War: Gender, Authority, and Reception

Sharp, Ingrid

doi:10.5250/womgeryearbook.27.2011.0087

Women in German Yearbook

2011

DOI: 10.5250/womgeryearbook.27.2011.0087

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Kääthe Kollwitz's Witness to War: Gender, Authority, and Reception

Ingrid Sharp¹

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“…The italics are used only in Bohnke-Kollwitz. 16 Kollwitz's drawing illustrated the title page of the fourth and fifth printings of the German version, (Rolland 1921) and the version of the drawing used for the title page is lost (Nagel 1972, p. 354). Each copy is numbered up to a total of 1000 copies.…”

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Käthe Kollwitz: Memorialization as Anti-Militarist Weapon

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This essay explores Käthe Kollwitz’s antiwar graphic work in the context of the German, and later, international No More War movement from 1920 to 1925, where it played an important role in antimilitarist campaigns, exhibitions, and publications, both in Germany and internationally. Looking at Kollwitz’s production closely, we discover a deeply pragmatic artistic strategy, where the emotionality of Kollwitz’s famed prints was the result of tireless technical, formal, and compositional investigation, contrived to maximize emotional impact. By choosing the easily disseminated medium of printmaking as her main vehicle and using a deliberately spare but powerful graphic language in carefully chosen motifs, Kollwitz intended her art to reach as broad an audience as possible in engaging antiwar sentiment. In connection with the leading antiwar voices of the time, including French Nobel Prize-winning writer Romain Rolland and the founder of War Resisters’ International, Helene Stöcker, she deployed her work to reach beyond the confines of the art gallery, into internationally distributed posters, periodicals, and books.

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A new perspective on Holocaust art: women’s artistic expression of the female Holocaust experience (1939–49)

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Kääthe Kollwitz's Witness to War: Gender, Authority, and Reception

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Käthe Kollwitz: Memorialization as Anti-Militarist Weapon

Käthe Kollwitz: Memorialization as Anti-Militarist Weapon

A new perspective on Holocaust art: women’s artistic expression of the female Holocaust experience (1939–49)

A peace play in wartime Germany? Pacifism in Franz Werfel’sThe Trojan Women, Berlin1916

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