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  • Essay / Analysis by Kathe Kollwitz - 619

    “As I drew and cried with the terrified children I was drawing, I truly felt the burden I was carrying. I felt I had no right to step away from the responsibility of being an advocate. – Kathe Kollwitz. As a German painter and sculptor, Kathe Kollwitz expressed in her statement that the art she created carried the burden of transfiguration. Fixating on the grief and hardship that occurred as she sat huddled with the children was the driving force behind her drawings. His realization that art could not only be an escape from the horror events happening in Germany, such as food rationing at that time, was also a way of expressing his opinion on change and revolution. It was the quest, which she fell in love with in her drawings and it is this feeling that I appreciate. I chose this artist because she delineated the different circumstances surrounding the human individual, she took into account the perspectives that involved life with its tragedies and the lives of little angels. Her drawings and sculptures were trained to imitate and capture what her eyes had seen while she was...