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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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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

Kollwitz lost her son in the fighting and explored the experience of mourning and suffering in her works.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The content may be local, but the inspiration is German, as she translates the style of such expressionists as Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz and Oskar Kokoschka into a myth of her own life.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020

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 Sparrow, Walter Shaw