German Expressionism

  Karl Friedrich Lippman - Mother and Child (1920)

 Kathe Kollwitz - Death and Tragedy (1925)

Kathe Kollwitz:

1. She was born in Russia, and was the fifth child in her family.
2. She enrolled in a Art School in Berlin.
3. She witnessed the death of many of her siblings, and therefore suffered from anxiety, a theme that greatly influenced her work.
4. Her first home she brought was bombed in WWII.

1. She started as a naturalism artist, but changed to expressionism. She painted about the victims of WWII.
2. She used wood cut techniques a lot in her work, and wanted to help less fortunate people by painting about them.