Käthe Kollwitz - Hatje Cantz

The front cover of the art book Kollwitz from the Städel Museum, set against a white background. The cover, on a grey-brown paper stock, features a stark black and white ink sketch of a person with a somber expression, resting their cheek on their hand. The title KOLLWITZ is printed in large, bold black letters below the artwork.

The back cover of a gray paperback book standing on a white surface. The cover is dominated by a dark, expressive ink drawing of a dense crowd of people with anguished faces, packed tightly behind a barbed wire barrier. In the top left corner, there is an ISBN, a barcode, and publisher information.

An angled shot of a paperback book titled Kollwitz, resting on a white surface. The beige cover features a dark blue, expressive, sketch-like portrait of a person resting their chin on their hand in a pensive pose. The title is in a large, bold, dark blue font.

An open art book displays two portraits by Käthe Kollwitz against a white background. On the left page is a charcoal sketch of two women with somber expressions. The right page shows a dark aquatint print of a single woman wrapped in a diamond-patterned blanket.

An open art book showing a two-page spread. The left page has German text under the heading Choreografie der Körper on a taupe background. The right page features a print of a dark, expressionistic charcoal drawing depicting a figure hunched over in grief, embracing another figure.

A photograph of an open art book. The page on the right displays a dark, textured print of a seated nude woman from behind, her back illuminated with a golden light. Beside her is a piece of green fabric. The left page contains descriptive German text about the artwork.

A textured, black and white charcoal drawing of an older woman with a focused, intense expression. She is hunched over, using her weathered hands to sharpen a large scythe blade with a whetstone. The drawing is on the right side of the image, next to a solid olive-green background on the left.

A table of contents from a German-language book about the artist Käthe Kollwitz. The text is arranged in three columns on a white background, with bold chapter titles and page numbers. The contents include an introduction, biography, a catalog section covering themes like self-portraits and the Peasants' War, and an exploration of the artist's legacy. The list concludes with a bibliography and imprint.

A two-page spread from a book in German. The pages feature columns of text about the artist Käthe Kollwitz. On the right is a black-and-white photograph of Kollwitz from 1909, sitting at a table and resting her head on her hand in a pensive pose, with an etching plate in front of her.

A two-page spread from a German art book, pages 46 and 47, about drawing and printmaking techniques. The text is in columns, accompanied by five black and white images showing close-up details of artworks. These images highlight the textures of charcoal and etching on paper, focusing on parts of human faces and figures to illustrate the methods described.

A vertical split image with a solid grey panel on the left that has the word Katalog in white text. The right side features an expressive, sketchy charcoal drawing of a pregnant person looking down with a somber expression, holding a piece of white fabric across their chest.

A two-page spread from a book. The left page contains German text with the heading Selbstbildnisse - Selbstbilder on a grey background. The right page displays a monochrome, wash-style self-portrait of a young woman with short dark hair, looking directly forward with a somber expression against a dark background.

An open art book displaying pages 112 and 113. The right page features a black-and-white etching from 1894 titled Sitzende Frau mit Säugling im Schoß, showing a woman holding a baby in a dimly lit room. Both pages contain descriptive text in German about the artworks.

Kollwitz

€ 58.00

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Edited by: Regina Freyberger

Texts by: Linda Baumgartner, Regina Freyberger, Gudrun Fritsch, Alexandra von dem Knesebeck, Katharina Koselleck, Andreas Schalhorn, Iris Schmeisser

Graphic Design: Formfellows Kommunikations-Design, Regina Schauerte und Thomas Klöß

German

March 2024, 296 Pages, 292 Photos

Paperback with Lay-Flat Binding

231mm x 281mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5583-2

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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She is the most famous German woman artist of the twentieth century and yet an exception: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945). She boldly chose prints and drawings as her essential media, finding in them an independent visual language of great immediacy. From a new perspective, her art addressed existential human questions and was therefore politically appropriated by many attitudes and issues in post-war Germany.
The catalogue that accompanies the comprehensive exhibition Kollwitz at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt focuses on the drawings and prints and presents her in all her diversity, expressive power, and modernity.