Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz - Hardcover

Kollwitz, Kaethe; Winston, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810107600 ISBN 13: 9780810107601

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1989

Synopsis

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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Review:

"[Kollwitz's] diary and letters . . . provide a dramatic record of German history during the turbulent time that encompassed World War I, the November Revolution, the Weimar Republic and the appearance of Nazism. To these, Kollwitz grants a compassionate, critical, and insightful vision, recording her own witnessing of historical events, her own experience of the everyday in a testimony which is generally recognized as one of the greatest autobiographical German texts of the century. . . . As human documents they have few equals; as historical documents, they are fundamental." Reinhold Heller"

Synopsis:

Personal writings by the German artist trace her development as a sculptor, recounts her family life, and are accompanied by a selection of her drawings and sculpture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0810107600
• ISBN 13: 9780810107601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Kollwitz Hans