Käthe Kollwitz Museum
Museum of drawings, prints, and sculptures confronting hunger, grief, and war by one German artist.
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This guide to the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne follows one German artist who turned personal grief into some of the century's starkest images, from a stone mother modeled on her own face to the son she lost in Belgium in 1914. It traces her sharpest subject, hunger, through posters like Bread and Never Again War made amid Germany's economic collapse of the early 1920s. Look for the etchings from her Weavers cycle, made after she saw a play about a failed uprising of textile workers.
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