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Kollwitz

American  
[kawl-vits] / ˈkɔl vɪts /

noun

  1. Käthe 1867–1945, German graphic artist and sculptor.


Kollwitz British  
/ ˈkɔlvɪts /

noun

  1. Käthe (ˈkɛːtə). 1867–1945, German lithographer and sculptress

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These images are no mere jeremiads but chilling depictions of suffering—both mental and physical—that bring to mind the most haunting works of Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

The gift also includes paintings, drawings, prints and posters from Alfred Kubin, Oskar Kokoschka and Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, as well as German artists Lovis Corinth and Käthe Kollwitz.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 8, 2025

His collection includes individual pieces by renowned women artists, among them Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein, Käthe Kollwitz, Meret Oppenheim and Niki de Saint Phalle.

From New York Times Feb. 7, 2023

Visual art such as the work of German artist Käthe Kollwitz conveyed the misery of the war.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

Another Berlin artist of note is Fräulein Käthe Kollwitz, whose principal field of artistic expression has hitherto been restricted to the burin and copper plate.

From Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Walter Shaw Sparrow

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