Käthe Kollwitz: Cause of Death, Full Details

Käthe Kollwitz was a German graphic artist, painter and sculptor. She was born on July 8, 1867, and she was one of the most famous German artists of the 20th century. Her parents were Katharina (1837–1925) and Karl (1825–1898) Schmidt.

Her father studied Law but because he could get a job, he worked as a master bricklayer. The siblings of Käthe Kollwitz were Julie, Lisbeth and the later economist and philosopher Conrad Schmidt.

Between 1867 and 1885, Käthe Kollwitz was living in Königsberg and had lessons from the artist Rudolf Mauer. She was at the Ladies Academy of the Association of Berlin Artists between 1885 and 1886 and learnt from the likes of Karl Stauffer-Bern, Gerhart Hauptmann and Arno Holz. With time, Käthe Kollwitz developed an interest in the graphic works of Max Klinger. She also studied with Ludwig Herterich in Munich until 1890. She worked as an artist in Königsberg for a year.

Käthe Kollwitz: Cause of Death

Käthe Kollwitz relocated to the Rüdenhof in the town of Moritzburg at the invitation of Ernst Heinrich von Saxony in July 1944. She died on April 22, 1945. She was buried in Berlin’s Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery. She died of heart failure.

Marriage

Käthe Kollwitz got married to doctor Karl Kollwitz, in June 1891. They relocated to a working-class district of Berlin, the district of Prenzlauer Berg. Käthe Kollwitz gave birth to her sons in 1892 and 1896.

She worked as a teacher at the women’s academy of the Association of Berlin Artists between 1898 and 1902/3. The husband of Käthe Kollwitz died in 1940 and was buried in the family grave at the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery.

Honors and Awards

Käthe Kollwitz was awarded the Villa Romana Prize in 1906 . She became a Professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1919 and later in 1929, she became the first woman to receive the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite for the Sciences and Arts.

Kollwitzstrasse (formerly Weißenburger Strasse) in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, Pankow district, was named after her during her 80th birthday in 1947.

The Wörther Platz was renamed Kollwitzplatz in October 1947 and the Käthe Kollwitz School (Anklam) was named after her in 1949. It must be noted that several cities, streets, squares, parks and schools (see Käthe Kollwitz School ) are named after Käthe Kollwitz.

Works

Some of the works of Käthe Kollwitz include 1937–1939: Creation of the sculpture Pietà, also called Mother with Dead Son, 1938–1940: Creation of the bronze relief The Lament, 1940–1941: Kollwitz processes the grief for her husband in the small sculpture Farewell, Around 1940: more serious drawings on these topics, for example 1943 There I am, digging my own grave, 1941: Last lithograph, seeds should not be ground, the artist’s legacy against soldiers’ deaths and war and 1943: last small sculpture: two waiting soldiers’ wives.

Reference :

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Kollwitz


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