Kathe Kollwitz Quotes
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
Kollwitz, Käthe. The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz. Edited by Hans Kollwitz, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, Northwestern University Press, 1988, p. 182.
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.