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Käthe Kollwitz

1867 - 1945

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Käthe Kollwitz (German pronunciation: [kɛːtə kɔlvɪt͡s] born as Schmidt; 8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class. Despite the realism of her early works, her art is now more closely associated with Expressionism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Käthe Kollwitz has received more than 1,089,635 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Käthe Kollwitz is the 14th most popular artist (up from 16th in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from Russia (up from 170th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Artist.

Käthe Kollwitz is most famous for her prints and drawings, which depict the struggles of the working class in Germany.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Käthe Kollwitz ranks 14 out of 125. Before her are Victor Vasarely, Anders Zorn, Hiroshige, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, and Jean Arp. After her are Roy Lichtenstein, Theo van Doesburg, El Lissitzky, Luca Signorelli, Marina Abramović, and Kurt Schwitters.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Käthe Kollwitz ranks 11. Before her are Frank Lloyd Wright, Emily Greene Balch, Edgar de Wahl, Arturo Toscanini, Emil Nolde, and Mary of Teck. After her are John Galsworthy, Natsume Sōseki, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Walther Rathenau, Maxime Weygand, and Johannes Fibiger. Among people deceased in 1945, Käthe Kollwitz ranks 32. Before her are Vidkun Quisling, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, August von Mackensen, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Hermann Fegelein, and Clara Petacci. After her are Emil Hácha, Robert Ley, Hans Fischer, Stefan Banach, Hans Krebs, and Roland Freisler.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Käthe Kollwitz ranks 155 out of 3,761. Before her are Yemelyan Pugachev (1742), Genrikh Yagoda (1891), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Alexey Stakhanov (1906), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), and Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884). After her are Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), Feodor II of Russia (1589), Boris Berezovsky (1946), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Alexander Friedmann (1888), and Felix Steiner (1896).

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Among ARTISTS In Russia

Among artists born in Russia, Käthe Kollwitz ranks 1. After her are El Lissitzky (1890), Onfim (1250), Aleksandr Golovin (1863), and Petr Pavlensky (1984).

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