The Artist Pilgrimage
As we get older it is in our nature to reflect on our past the processes that took place in our personal development as a human being. Searching for confirmations that we have done our contribution in our societal role in making a difference. The marks we make along the way are meaningless if we do not learn and grow to ultimately come to know the truth to live it out. Kathe Kollwitz came to a point in her life where she began to reflect on these very things in, “the relationships between aging, art, and spiritual growth.” *1There are dairy interties that date back to 1910, that can give anyone chills when reading them knowing what events would soon take place after. “This period of my life seems to me very fine. Great piercing sorrows have not yet struck me; my darling boys are growing more independent. I can already see the time when they will break loose from me, and at the moment I look forward to it without sorrow…” *2
There phases of maturity that people reach as they live and learn, and Kollwitz wrote about her spiritual connection with God. Kollwitz purpose was to reach divinity. Her work reflects the voice against poverty, cruelty, war, and concluding that those who suffer will be led to seek out peaceful assurance in a divine God that would eventually eliminate these sufferings in the end. *3 Kollwitz used her knowledge from the personal grief she endured to cry out for justice and compassion as an art of protest from the conditions derived in the wars in Germany. *3 All of Kollwitz self-portraits mirror her critical stages in her life and she captures the rawness of her “depression, grief, scorn or false emotion.” *4
*1 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, 39.
*2Winkler, Mary G., 41.
*3Winkler, Mary G., 42.
*4Winkler, Mary G., 43.
There phases of maturity that people reach as they live and learn, and Kollwitz wrote about her spiritual connection with God. Kollwitz purpose was to reach divinity. Her work reflects the voice against poverty, cruelty, war, and concluding that those who suffer will be led to seek out peaceful assurance in a divine God that would eventually eliminate these sufferings in the end. *3 Kollwitz used her knowledge from the personal grief she endured to cry out for justice and compassion as an art of protest from the conditions derived in the wars in Germany. *3 All of Kollwitz self-portraits mirror her critical stages in her life and she captures the rawness of her “depression, grief, scorn or false emotion.” *4
*1 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, 39.
*2Winkler, Mary G., 41.
*3Winkler, Mary G., 42.
*4Winkler, Mary G., 43.
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