Annotated Bibliography

Bynum, Annetta, and William Bynum. "VISIT TO THE HOSPITAL: Woodcut by                                    Käthe Kollwitz (ca. 1928)." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 24,                 no. 1 (1969): 76. Accessed March 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/24621968.

            Annetta and William Bynum’s journal article write a brief statement of Käthe Kollwitz woodcut called, “Visit to The Hospital.” The authors wrote a jewel within a short and sweet paragraph describing the contents of the scene in Kollwitz artwork. Recognizing the child present in her piece will experience, “a contrast of the suffering of those who die against the suffering of those who live on.”

Clarke, Jay A. "Käthe Kollwitz and the Face of Grief." Art in Print5, no. 5 (2016): 26-27.                         Accessed March 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/26408563.

            Jay A. Clarke writes in the article how Kathe Kollwitz print Woman with Dead Child 1903, takes on an “animal-like nature of the woman’s face”. Kollwitz piece is of a woman experiencing a great deal of grief and loss. Clarke investigates this feature of the print that is mentioned but tends to go unexplored.

Comini, Alessandra., Prelinger, Elizabeth., Kollwitz, Käthe., Bachert, Hildegard. Käthe                            Kollwitz: National Gallery of Art, Washington; [catalog of an Exhibition Held May 3 -                 August 16, 1992]. 

            Prelinger, Comini, Bachert, and Kollwitz all work together as authors in this book to bring forth a different focal point to the artistic aspects of Kollwitz achievements. Kollwitz social content can be seen to overshadow the spotlight of her significant artistic abilities. There are three essays written that bring valuable insight on Kollwitz works revealing the mastery of her media.

            "Käthe Kollwitz." In Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed., 79-81. Vol. 9. Detroit, MI:                     Gale, 2004. Gale eBooks (accessed May 1, 2020). https://link-gale-            com.proxy.tamuc.edu/apps/doc/CX3404703612/GVRL?u=txshracd2565&sid=GVRL&xi            d=db3b25e1.

            The In Encyclopedia of World Biography, holds valuable information on the biography of Kathe Kollwitz life events that shaped her future. Detailing her artistic skill, and her support from her father to pursue her passions in art. With a hand full of passages describing her influences and inspirations from her personal life experiences that was birthed into her work.

Kollwitz, Käthe. Prints and Drawings of Käthe Kollwitz. (United States: Dover                                         Publications, 2012.)

            Kathe Kollwitz is known for heart tugging artworks. In these prints and drawings are her heart and soul poured out on behalf of the people who suffered along side her. Kollwitz works depicts the people being greeted by death from the wars, the uprisings, the poverty, the vulnerably oppressed doing everything to survive.

Kollwitz, Käthe. The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz. (United States: Northwestern                         University Press, 1988.)         

As a German Expressionist artist Kollwitz has countless artworks depicting the hardships people faced during the times of war. Kollwitz did not write much of herself, but thankfully she documented in her diary now available in, The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz. In her diary she recorded short essays and letters she wrote pertaining to her hardships, courage, and knowledge that is seen in her art today.

McCausland, Elizabeth. “Käthe Kollwitz.” Parnassus 9, no. 2 (1937): 20–25.                                            https://doi.org/10.2307/771494.

            In this journal article, Elizabeth McCausland polishes through major events throughout Kathe Kollwitz life. The author challenges critics on their claims that, “Kollwitz is a great human being but not a great artist.” The uniqueness between her form and subject matter can be easily unnoticed if not studied thoroughly. McCausland defends Kollwitz in her conscious decisions in her use of line work and texture to create a statement equivalent to an emotion or idea.

Schulte, Regina, and Pamela Selwyn. "Käthe Kollwitz's Sacrifice." History Workshop Journal,                no. 41 (1996): 193-221. Accessed March 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/4289436.

            Schulte and Selwyn carry the weight of what the sacrifice truly means to Kollwitz in, "Käthe Kollwitz's Sacrifice". The authors write in detail of how Kollwitz, “continually places Christ and her son Peter in relationship to each other…” The sacrifice of a son and what it is to be a mourning mother drives the artistic creations of Kollwitz profound imagery through her personal experiences of these devastating conditions.

Winkler, Mary G. "WALKING TO THE STARS: KATHE KOLLWITZ AND THE                                 ARTIST'S PILGRIMAGE." Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging 14,   no. 4 (1990): 39-44. Accessed March 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/44876924.

            Mary Winkler in her article captures Kollwitz pilgrimage within her self-portraits seeking self-knowledge in her life experiences. The author makes clear the roots of Kollwitz artworks it is through the stages of, “depression, grief, scorn, or false emotion.” Kollwitz in her self-portraits studies the process between aging, art and spiritual growth opening humanity to see, “the beauty in the degraded and the unlovely.”