Kathe Kollwitz The Sacrifice
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Kathe Kollwitz (1867 1945)
'The Sacrifice'
In the print 'The Sacrifice' one can see a naked lady, with a baby in her hands. She is holding this baby in the air almost as if she is 'sacrificing it', and further more 'giving it up'. There is a black darker circle around this, which could represent many things from a blanket to a new home, which could shelter the baby, if she was to hand it over. There is then a white outline around the woman, which could be indicating explosives or maybe even a light of hope, for both the lady and her child.
Kathe Kollwitz was born in Konigsberg, and was the first female to join the Academy of Arts in Prussia. Kathe then began to feel for the suffering and had many ideas of social justice. Kathe Kollwitzs' pictures and paintings were rejected to been seen in art exhibitions until late 1893. When the first World War broke out Kathe Kollwitz lost her first, and only son. It wasn't until after 1910 that Kathe Kollwitz began to create woodcuts.
The media used to create this work is a wood block print and ink...