Kathe Kollwitz Quotes
Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.
Kollwitz, Käthe. The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz. Edited by Hans Kollwitz, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, Northwestern University Press, 1988.
At the time Kinsey wrote this, it was a very new idea. Subsequently, science has shown that Kinsey had it essentially right and maleness and femaleness are in different degrees in different people. This has shifted the political and moral argument from homosexuality and the characteristics of people to behavior,
Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class. Despite the realism of her early works, her art is now more closely associated with Expressionism. Kollwitz was the first woman to not only be elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts but to also receive honorary professor status.