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    The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

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    Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

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    Architecture Now III

  6. The Life of Michel-Angelo
    The Life of Michel-Angelo

  7. Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man
    Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man

  8. Spider-Man Confidential: From Comic Icon to Hollywood Hero
    Spider-Man Confidential: From Comic Icon to Hollywood Hero

  9. The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron & Teresa Guiccioli
    The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron & Teresa Guiccioli

  10. Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture, Revised Edition
    Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture, Revised Edition

  11. Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design
    Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design

  12. Leon Battista Alberti : Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance
    Leon Battista Alberti : Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance

  13. The Comics Journal Library: R. Crumb
    The Comics Journal Library: R. Crumb

  14. Caspar David Friedrich
    Caspar David Friedrich

  15. Frida Kahlo
    Frida Kahlo

  16. Traces: An Autobiography Remembering 1930-1949
    Traces: An Autobiography Remembering 1930-1949

  17. The Success and Failure of Picasso
    The Success and Failure of Picasso

  18. Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscape: An Artist's Gifts to the Former Soviet Union
    Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscape: An Artist's Gifts to the Former Soviet Union

  19. Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers of Modern Design
    Robin and Lucienne Day: Pioneers of Modern Design

  20. Tina Modotti: Radical Photographer
    Tina Modotti: Radical Photographer

  21. Jim Dine (Modern Masters Series, Vol. 18)
    Jim Dine (Modern Masters Series, Vol. 18)

  22. Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman
    Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman

  23. The Life and Works of Thomas Cole
    The Life and Works of Thomas Cole

  24. The Mud-Pie Dilemma: A Master Potter's Struggle to Make Art and Ends Meet
    The Mud-Pie Dilemma: A Master Potter's Struggle to Make Art and Ends Meet

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    Journal of Delacroix (Arts & Letters)

Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A beautiful heart
  • For fellow Kollwitz worshippers...
Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
Kaethe Kollwitz
Manufacturer: Northwestern University Press
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5 out of 5 stars A beautiful heart.......2004-10-14

Kaethe Kollwitz created some of the most moving drawings and lithos I have ever seen. Many are dark and sorrowful. Even so, many have an indestructible kernel of hope in them kept alive through sheer personal will.

Now that I've read these extracts from her diaries and correspondence, I can understand better the woman who made that art. Above all, she was a woman founded on her emotions. I don't means twittering sentimentality. I mean the kind of love that kept her one marriage strong for 49 years, until she was widowed. I mean the kind of devotion that kept her at work for fifteen years on the memorial to her son, fallen in the first World War. I mean the kind of dedication that led her to teach master classes, even though she grew up when women were almost forbidden to attend advanced schooling.

Despite her losses in the two World Wars, her life had much in it to bolster her strength. Her family supported her childhood interest in art, and her father was willing to get her what training he could. She married young, and somewhat against her parents' wishes. Her husband, however, supported her art, and she remained close to her parents. She fully accepted motherhood; her sons and later her grandchildren were bulwarks of her adult life. She engendered lifelong affection in her friends and her family. Her surviving son compiled this tribute to her life, and her grand-daughter added a few pages about Kaethe's last days.

There are a few dozen samples of her drawings, sculpture, lithos and woodcut at the end of this book. (Given her tendency towards transfer lithos, the distinction between litho and drawing isn't always clear.) The reproductions aren't great, just enough to indicate the structure and feeling of each piece. The set is nicely bracketed, however, by an early self-portait and her last one. The face is the same handsome woman in both, but the later Kaethe is wizened and wisened by her years.

This is a wonderful book. I am truly glad to know more about this woman. If you want just reproductions of her art, this is likely to disappoint. If you want her herself, you've found it.

//wiredweird

5 out of 5 stars For fellow Kollwitz worshippers..........2000-01-25

For anyone out there who also worships Kaethe Kollwitz and her extraordinary work, this book is a must-read. Edited by the son that lived--Hans--"The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz" provides an intimate portrait of the woman who lived behind the drawings in her own words. This book breathed life and personality into somebody who has been one of my greatest artistic influences. I found it exceptionally moving to be able to share her emotions, thoughts and tragedies in this way.
Diaries and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
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    Diaries and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
    Hans, editor Kollwitz
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      The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz.
      Editor. Hans Kollwitz
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      The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz. Edited by Hans Kollwitz. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston.
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        The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz. Edited by Hans Kollwitz. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston.
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          Hans Kollwitz
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            Manufacturer: Chicago Henry Regnery Co. 1955.
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                Kaethe; Kollwits, Hans (ed.) Kollwitz
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                  The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
                  Kaethe; Winston, Richard (translator); Winston, Clara (translator) Kollwitz
                  Manufacturer: Northwestern University Press
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                    Hans Kollwitz
                    Manufacturer: Northwestern Univ Pr
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