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War LanguagesWomen and war in the art ofKäthe Kollwitz
Vesa Matteo Piludu
University of Helsinki
Department of Art Research
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Millet Gleaners 1857
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Angelus
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Shepherdess with Her Flock1864
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TitleThe WeedersDate 1868
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Song of the Lark, 1884
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Woman Sewing by Lamplight 1870
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Jean Francois Millet - 1850
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Millet Winnower 1847-8
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Courbet, The grain Sifters
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Gustave Courbet, Sleeping spinner 1857
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A woman Asleep 1657
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Daumier, Honor Laveuse au Quai d'Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d'Anjou) c. 1860
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Daumier, Honor The Burden (The Laundress) c. 1850-53
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Degas, women ironig
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Degas
Degas’ penetrating observation, captured subtle differences in people’s faces and body language (especially within different economic classes).
Degas respected the hard-working immigrants from Eastern Europe, especially working women.
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Woman ironing', Edgar Degas, c.1890
The art of Degas was that of a 'Naturalist', depicting what was considered “vulgar”
laundresses were commonly thought of as borderline prostitutes - in a way that was almost scientific
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Two washer women by Degas
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Il quarto stato, Pellizza da Valpredo (1901)
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Käthe Kollwitz - Farmers' war
Much of the art of modern social protest traces its roots to the work of German artist Käthe Kollwitz.
One of a cycle of prints and drawings which the youthful Kollwitz produced on the theme of peasant revolt
The cycle hearkened back to the Bauernkrieg (literally, "farmers' war") of the sixteenth century while portraying the dire straits of agricultural laborers in contemporary Germany.
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Käthe Kollwitz Ploughers, etching and aquatint, 1906
The Plougher of her Peasant War series symbolises the oppressed of every age. Not the man behind the plough, but reduced to pulling it himself, he is a virtual beast of burden
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Kathe Kollwitz (German, 1867 - 1945)Brot! (Bread!)1933
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Hunger, 1925
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Käthe KollwitzHunger 1925
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Mother Holding Child in Her Arms, Second Version 1910
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Kathe Kollwitz, Poverty, 1893-94
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Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867-1945), Tod in Wasser / Death in the water
this lithograph, produced shortly after Hitler assumed power, shows a drowned family, perhaps a prophetic vision of Germany's future as a country about to be drowning in death
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Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), Woman with her Dead Child (1903)
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Käthe KollwitzDeath Seizes the Children 1934
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KATHE KOLLWITZ 1867 - 1945Woman in the Lap of Death (Tod mit Frau im Schoss)Woodcut on ivory wove paper, 1921
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Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were among the founders of the Berlin Spartakusbund (Spartacus League)
On January 15, 1919, Liebknecht and Luxemburg were shot to death during the Spartacus Revolt on the pretext that they were attempting escape.
In this instance Kollwitz emphasizes grief and the human element over any explicit political reference
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lmost whetted by Käthe Kollwitz
No wonder the resentment of Kollwitz's peasant woman is also sharpened as she whets her scythe-in an etching significantly titled Almost whetted
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Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867-1945)Weberzug [March of the Weavers], fourth plate in Ein Weberaustand [Revolt of the Weavers], 1897
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Käthe Kollwitz Revolt, THE PEASANT WAR 1899-1908
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Käthe Kollwitz, Outbreak, 1903
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Kathe Kollwitz, Killed in Action (1921)
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Kathe Kollwitz, Widows and Orphans (1919)
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The parents
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After the Battle by Kathe Kollwitz.
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The Survivors, a drawing by the German artist Kathe Kollwitz, was used for a peace congress in The Hague, Holland, in 1922.
The survivors say: War to War!
The text on the right side says: Do not teach the children to glorify the war and war hero's; teach them to despise war