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PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 248 pgs / 200 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2024 p. 24   

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ISBN 9781633451612 TRADE
List Price: $65.00 CAD $95.00

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New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, 03/31/24–07/20/24

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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK

Käthe Kollwitz: A Retrospective

Edited with text by Starr Figura. Text by Kirsty Bell, Maggie Hire, Dorothy Price, Sarah Rapoport.

Käthe Kollwitz: A Retrospective

An extraordinary gathering of rare drawings, prints and sculptures focusing on themes of motherhood, grief and resistance

In the early 20th century, when many artists were experimenting with abstraction by way of colorful painting, Käthe Kollwitz remained committed to an art of social purpose through figurative, black-and-white printmaking and drawing. Through her work, she brought visibility to the hardships of the working class and asserted the female point of view as a necessary and powerful agent for change.
Published in conjunction with the largest exhibition of her work in the United States in more than 30 years, and the first major retrospective devoted to Kollwitz at a New York museum, this book surveys the artist’s career from the 1890s through the early 1940s. It features approximately 120 drawings, prints and sculptures drawn from public and private collections in Europe and North America. Examples of the artist’s most iconic projects showcase her political engagement, while rarely seen studies and working proofs highlight her intensive, ever-searching creative process. Essays explore crucial aspects of Kollwitz’s art, career and legacy, including her professional life and connections in Berlin, her groundbreaking approach to the subject of women’s grief and her work’s reception among artists in the US.
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was born in the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). One of history’s most outstanding graphic artists, she was widely recognized for her art of social advocacy and compassion and was one of the few women artists of the early 20th century to achieve international renown in her own lifetime.


PRAISE AND REVIEWS

The New York Times: Arts

Aruna D'Souza

Käthe Kollwitz’s fierce belief in social justice and her indelible images made her one of Germany’s best printmakers. A dazzling MoMA show reminds us why.

Frieze

Grace Byron

Her skills with basic techniques are unmatched – etching, lines, highlights and shadow all come alive in her grotesque woodblock scenes and drawings of poverty, violence and debauchery. The lucid detail with which she depicts ruin is astonishing.

New Yorker

E. Tammy Kim

The repetition, of drafts or experiments, shows how much creativity a mechanical process can afford.

Hyperallergic

Alice Procter

In the nearly 80 years since Kollwitz’s death, images of violence have only become more ubiquitous. It’s a devastating testament to her artistry that these works are still so moving.

Käthe Kollwitz: A Retrospective

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/9/2024

The excruciating power of Käthe Kollwitz

The excruciating power of Käthe Kollwitz

“Woman with Dead Child,” state IV/X (1903), is from Käthe Kollwitz: A Retrospective, published to accompany the exhibition on view now at MoMA. Surely years in the making, this gut-punching gathering of rare drawings, prints and sculptures centered on motherhood, grief and resistance could not be more perfectly timed for those of us who are struggling to comprehend or even live with the turmoil and anguish of today’s military, social and political conflicts around the world and at home. (Read Aruna D’Souza’s recent review in The New York Times for more on this.) In the exhibition catalog, curator Starr Figura writes, “The five decades during which [Kollwitz] was professionally active were some of the most volatile in German history. From the 1890s through the early 1940s, as the country lurched from the upheavals of industrialization through the traumas of two world wars, she dedicated her art to advocating for those whose burdens were the most acute and underrecognized. ‘I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate,’ she wrote. ‘It is my duty to voice the sufferings of people, which are never-ending and as large as a mountain.’” continue to blog


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Käthe Kollwitz: A Retrospective

KäTHE KOLLWITZ: A RETROSPECTIVE

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633451612
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Pub Date: 4/23/2024
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