Bidspirit auction | Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz (1867 -

Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz (1867 - 1945) Germany - Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz (1867 - 1945) Etching, Signed with Pencil, Measures ( 8.5 x 11 inches ) w/frame ( 13.5 X 17 inches ) Kaethe Kollwitz was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia in 1867. The family name was Schmidt, and they were cultivated, middle class people who considered a talent to be a duty. Her art education began in 1881; she began studying with Rudolph Mauer, a local engraver. At seventeen, she enrolled in the School for Women Artists in Berlin. Her early studies, which reveal a developing social consciousess, depicted workers engaged in manual labor. In 1885, she became engaged to a medical student, Karl Kollwitz, who was also a member of the Social Democratic Party. Over the next fifty years, her husband's practice exposed her to an even wider range of suffering and tragedy. Condition: Good Condition