Major exhibitions in Frankfurt and New York showcase her portrayals of the scars of war
is wild, the face blurred and fierce. A despairing, naked mother hunches over her dead son and clutches him to her, as if to subsume him back into herself. When this etching was first exhibited by the Berlin Secession, an artists’ collective, in 1903, viewers were shocked. In its visceral portrayal of anguish, Käthe Kollwitz’s “Frau mit totem Kind” was unlike any previous depiction of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of Jesus Christ.
across the West, but it has since been largely overlooked. For much of the past century, the “critical establishment gave her the cold shoulder”, says Maria Gough, a professor of modern art at Harvard University. Two major exhibitions, at the Museum of Modern Art . She was allowed to study art—hardly usual for a girl at the time—and did so in Berlin, Paris and Florence. After Kollwitz married in 1891 and settled in Berlin, her star rose quickly.
are the successive “states”, or plates of each image, which show how Kollwitz conveyed such emotional power.
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