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Kathe Kollwitz Biography

Käthe Kollwitz, née Schmidt (German pronunciation: [kɛːtə kɔlvɪt͡s]), (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) 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 elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts.

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As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the higher up the mountain you climb, the less of a view you get. A mist closes in and cheats you of the hoped-for and expected opportunity to see far and wide.

Age, Cheats, Expected, Good, Opportunity, Views

I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

Achievement, Die, Life, Self Improvement, Small, Talent

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

Children, Men, Old, Pushcart, Sitting

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.

Blind, Development, Fatal, National, Spirit

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

Died, Exclude, Hurt, People, War

I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art. . . . but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.

Art, Long, Pure, War

Men without joy seem like corpses.

Corpses, Joy, Men

It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.

Fulfill, Heaped, Mountain, Suffering, Sufferings, Voice

I am in the world to change the world.

Change, Changing The World, Life, World

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

Aging, Important, Spread, Tasks, Warmth

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

Evolutionary, Revolutionary, Thought

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

Answers, Carrie, Carries, Smashed, War

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

Artistic, Homosexuality, Masculinity, Work

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

Adjustment, Art, Growing, Old, Partly, Process

Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.

Analysis, Culture, Finals, Fulfills, Individual, Obligations

For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.

Beauty, Class, Common, Gestures, Koenigsberg, People

My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless. . . It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.

Art, Confused, Course, Effect, Needs, Sense

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

Appealing, Dead, Death, Dying, Prospect, Yes

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

Children, Eye, Looks, Look, Life, Eyes

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.

Inspired, Knows, Related, Religion

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