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German printmaker Kathe Kollwitz (1867–1945) is known for her unapologetic social and political imagery; her representations of grief, suffering, and struggle; and her equivocal ideas about artistic and political labels. This volume explores Kollwitz’s obsessive printmaking experiments with the evolution of her images, and assesses the unusually rich progressions of preparatory drawings, proofs, and rejected images behind Kollwitz’s compositions of struggling workers, rebellious peasants, and grieving mothers. This selected catalogue of the Dr. Richard A. Simms collection at the Getty Research Institute provides a bird’s-eye view of Kollwitz’s sequences of images as well as the interrelationships among prints produced over multiple years. The meanings and sentiments emerging from Kollwitz’s images are not, as is often implied, unmediated expressions of her politics and emotions. Rather, Kollwitz transformed images with deliberate technical and formal experiments, seemingly endless adjustments, wholesale rejections, and strategic regroupings of figures and forms—all of which demonstrate that her obsessive dedication to making art was never a straightforward means to political or emotional ends. --Getty Publications

Kollwitz, Käthe --- Prints --- Private collections --- Kollwitz, Käthe, --- Simms, Richard A., --- Art collections --- Getty Research Institute --- Graphic arts --- drawings [visual works] --- prints [visual works] --- woodcuts [prints] --- suffering --- Women printmakers --- Women artists --- Attitudes --- 76.07 --- Käthe Kollwitz 1867-1945 (° Königsberg, Oost-Pruisen - nu Kaliningrad) --- Grafiek ; 1ste helft 20ste eeuw ; Käthe Kollwitz --- Kunst en politiek --- Thema's in de kunst ; volksklasse ; de arbeider --- Fine prints --- Grafische kunst ; grafische kunstenaars A-Z --- Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities --- Exhibitions --- Käthe Kollwitz 1867-1945 (°Königsberg, Oost-Pruisen - nu Kaliningrad) --- Thema's in de kunst: oorlog, opstand, geweld, verdrukking, ooggetuigen --- gender --- politiek --- geschiedenis --- sociaal engagement --- armoede --- Wereldoorlog I --- verzameling Richard A. Simms --- Simms, Richard A. --- Liebknecht, Karl --- 76 <43> "19" --- 76 KOLLWITZ, KATHE --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--KOLLWITZ, KATHE --- 76 KOLLWITZ, KATHE Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--KOLLWITZ, KATHE --- 76 <43> "19" Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- gender. --- politiek. --- geschiedenis. --- sociaal engagement. --- armoede. --- Wereldoorlog I. --- verzameling Richard A Simms. --- Kollwitz, Käthe. --- Liebknecht, Karl. --- armoede; 'Povertà', 'Povertà del doni', 'Povertà in uno ch'habbia bell'ingegno' (Ripa) --- armoede; 'Povertà', 'Povertà del doni', 'Povertà in uno ch'habbia bell'ingegno' (Ripa).