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Alessandra Comini, SMU University Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita
Käthe Kollwitz, steadfast chronicler of the human condition, was witness to three important epochs of German history: the birth and collapse in 1918 of the Wilhelminian Reich, the disintegration of the Weimar Republic in 1933, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. She lost a son in World War I and a grandson in World War II. Slowly changing from "revolutionary" to "evolutionary" (her words), Kollwitz used her art to deliver hammer blows against the hardening of the heart. |
