site.btaNational Gallery to Showcase Kathe Kollwitz’s Artworks

An exhibition entitled Kathe Kollwitz: Destiny, Context, Position will be unveiled at the National Art Gallery Palace on May 18, said the gallery team Monday.

Kathe Kollwitz was the most famous German artist of her time, and still is today. She was the first woman professor at the Berlin Academy of Arts, where she led a master class in printmaking before the Nazis forced her to leave because of her anti-fascist, anti-war and artistic positions.

The National Gallery holds 22 graphic artworks by Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), which form the current exhibition in combination with works by other artists from her close circle. Among them are twentieth-century artists Max Slevogt (1857-1920), Max Liebermann (1847-1935), Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923), Lovis Corinth (1858-1925), Ernst Barlach (1870-1938), Heinrich Zille (1885-1929), Otto Dix (1891-1969) and others. The full gallery's collection of these names is shown for the first time.

 The exhibition will be on view until June 16, the organizers said on Monday. BTA is a media partner of the event.