From Library Journal
Kollwitz's art is well known, but little has been written on her life. This publication introduces the private person through diary entries revealing the struggles of a woman who was master and servant of her art, who probed her roles as wife and mother, and who sought joy in a life that took her son in World War I and her grandson in World War II. A victim of Hitler's censorship, Kollwitz speaks of the need to combine the politics of humanity and art. Her letters are more light-hearted and punctuated with hope and happy memories. Recommended for collections emphasizing art history and women's studies. Lucy Breslin, Portland, Me.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Text: English, German (translation)
The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz FROM THE PUBLISHER
One of the great German Expressionist artists, Kaethe Kollwitz wrote little of herself. But her diary, kept from 1900 to her death in 1945, and her brief essays and letters express, as well as explain, much of the spirit, wisdom, and internal struggle which was eventually transmuted into her art.
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