Käthe Kollwitz: Engravings and Scultures.

Born in Königsberg in 1867 and brought up during the German Empire, Käthe Kollwitz was throughout her life, politically, socially and personally committed to freedom and justice. Society did not give her the chance to develop as an artist, but her parents supported her wish and she managed to enrol at the School for Female Artists in Berlin.

Her decisive, unmistakable contribution to German art is that as an artist of middle-class origin she managed to turn her heartfelt social commitment and her demands for an improvement to deplorable social conditions into a graphic language of great force and penetration that was both popular and wholly her own. I never worked coldly (…) but rather with my own blood, so to speak. Those who see it must feel it. . Even today we can still feel it: Käthe Kollwitz’s work has lost none of its up-to-date quality.

With a total of 68 lithographs, wood-prints and etchings, plus 5 sculptures, this exhibition offers an overview of the work of Käthe Kollwitz: a work that as a whole represents a hymn to the weak, the vulnerable and the oppressed and unique testimony to the epic social events of the 20th century.