Käthe Kollwitz. Je veux agir dans ce temps. Dessins, estampes, sculptures. Sculpture This book is the result

This book is the result of a long work among the writings

initiated a new style of painting during the last decades of the 15th century and the first decades of the 16th century

(reading at the Academy of Inscriptions in August 1883) Plate 1 - 8

the inhabitants had to flee before the Sassanid troops of Shapur I

Käthe Kollwitz. Je veux agir dans ce temps. Dessins, estampes, sculptures. Sculpture This book is the resultThe poignant work of a woman artist who vigorously addresses social conflicts, maternal love, war, and mourning. Engravings, drawings, and sculptures form a body of work of great formal virtuosity, always fueled by an unvarnished commitment to serving the weakest and a touching sincerity. Born in 1867 and dying a few days before the end of the Second World War, Kthe Kollwitz is one of the most significant German artistic figures of the first half of