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Raw, unprettified and decried in conservative circles as “gutter
art”: Käthe Kollwitz employed her art uncompromisingly as a
political voice for the social and human misery of her time. Her
focus always lay on the dignity of humankind. The volume provides a
wide-ranging insight into the commitment and creative work of the
artist, whose achievements are more topical than ever. The book
covers the entire spectrum of Kollwitz’ creative work with the
world-famous cycles of graphic works A Weavers’ Revolt and
Peasants’ War, rare proofs and moving drawings and sculptures,
thereby showing all facets of her masterful skills. The political
dimension of Kollwitz’ art becomes tangible in a particularly
impressive manner through her posters. The unbroken validity of her
work is demonstrated in a juxtaposition with the interventions by
the artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952), which revolve around topics such
as vulnerability, persecution and the experience of conflict.
In less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923) created
a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass works and
mosaics. Her expressive subjects, including landscapes, townscapes
and harbour scenes, are characterised by luminosity and increasing
transparency, by rhythmical compositions of the pictorial space,
black contours and an intensive use of colour. After her artistic
beginnings in the circle around Mondrian and elsewhere, Jacoba van
Heemskerck belonged to the centre of the avant-garde movement
emanating from the "Sturm" of Herwarth Walden in Berlin - the
gallerist and publisher who made artists like Marc, Kandinsky and
Jawlensky famous. Her work is shaped by her orientation towards
Anthroposophy, which bears witness to her interest in the elemental
effect of light and colour on the viewer. Her creative work is
highly topical today thanks to her understanding of nature and the
cosmos as a world viewed as a whole.
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