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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 1,020,298 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Käthe Kollwitz is the 16th most popular artist (up from 18th in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from Russia (up from 173rd in 2019) and the 2nd 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 16 out of 78Before her are Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Hiroshige, Marina Abramović, Theo van Doesburg, and El Lissitzky. After her are Roy Lichtenstein, Luca Signorelli, Anders Zorn, David Hockney, Keith Haring, and Adolph Menzel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Käthe Kollwitz ranks 10Before her are Józef Piłsudski, Luigi Pirandello, Arturo Toscanini, Emily Greene Balch, Mary of Teck, and John Galsworthy. After her are Emil Nolde, Maxime Weygand, Natsume Sōseki, Pierre Bonnard, Prince Maximilian of Baden, and Percy Fawcett. Among people deceased in 1945, Käthe Kollwitz ranks 44Before her are Hans Krebs, Oskar Dirlewanger, Roland Freisler, Hans Fischer, Josef Kramer, and Wilhelm Burgdorf. After her are Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Stefan Banach, Giovanni Agnelli, Robert Ritter von Greim, Karl-Otto Koch, and Karl Hanke.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Käthe Kollwitz ranks 170 out of 3,262Before her are El Lissitzky (1890), Sergey Shoygu (1955), Felix Steiner (1896), Gala Dalí (1894), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), and Pavel Cherenkov (1904). After her are Sergei Diaghilev (1872), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Anatoly Karpov (1951), and Alexander Friedmann (1888).

Among ARTISTS In Russia

Among artists born in Russia, Käthe Kollwitz ranks 2Before her are El Lissitzky (1890). After her are Aleksandr Golovin (1863) and Petr Pavlensky (1984).