I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work … - Käthe Kollwitz

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I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. When both the boys went away for Easter, I hardly did anything but work. Worked, slept, ate and went for short walks. But above all I worked. And yet I wonder whether the "blessing" is not missing from such work. No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Käthe Kollwitz

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About Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger and war.

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Alternative Names: Kathe Kollwitz • Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz • Käthe née Schmidt • Kaethe Kollwitz • Kėte Kolʹvit︠s︡ • Käthe Schmidt • Kʻo-le-hui-chih • Kathe Schmidt • Kathe nee Schmidt Kollwitz • Käthe Kollwitz-Schmidt • Käthe Ida Schmidt • k. kollwitz • Kollwitz Kathe • Schmidt • Kate Kollowitz

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I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.

My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. When both the boys went away for Easter, I hardly did anything but work. Work… - Käthe Kollwitz

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