![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Käthe Kollwitz was the first woman admitted into the Prussian Academy of Arts, though her gender limited her opportunities for art education when she was young. The patients at the clinic inspired much of her work. Their house was next to the clinic where he worked. Her husband Karl was a medical doctor who tended the poor in Berlin. Her grandfather was a Lutheran pastor expelled from the official Evangelical State Church of Prussia for his socialist views. Her father was a mason and house builder whose political sympathies were radically social democratic. Käthe Kollwitz had a long and dramatic life deeply touched by left wing Christianity. While her secularized Madonnas and Pietas lost their traditional religious meanings, they gained a new powerful empathetic appeal. Kollwitz secularized and updated a lot of traditional religious imagery and gave it a new emotional force. She remade the great themes of Christian religious imagery that always dominated German art since the earliest middle ages and still resonated deeply with artists and public alike in the early 20th century. Another artist who pointed a way forward for German artists was the great graphic artist and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz. ![]()
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