Kollwitz, Käthe (1867 Koenigsberg - 1945 Moritzburg)

Lot 1511 limit € 250

Lithograph, mother with child, signed lower right in the print, sheet approx. 53 x 38 cm, 1885/86 attended the women's academy of the Berlin Artists' Association with Karl Stauffer-Bern, met Gerhart Hauptmann and Arno Holz, turned to graphics, 1886 Lessons with Emil Neide at the Königsberg Art Academy, until 1889 studies in Munich with Ludwig Herterich, 1898 participation in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, from 1910 also active as a sculptor, Käthe Kollwitz was a member of the Berlin Secession, from 1919 professor, as 1st woman member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and from 1929 member of the Prussian order Pour le Mérite for science and arts, 1944 moved to the Rüdenhof in Moritzburg at the invitation of Ernst Heinrich Prince of Saxony