A Closer Look: Kathe Kollwitz and Yvonne Canu
A Closer Look: Kathe Kollwitz and Yvonne Canu
2019-05-21
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz (Prussian/German, 1867-1945)Tod and Frau (Death and the Woman), 1910
Engraving, 17 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches
Kaethe Kollwitz was born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia in 1867. The family name was Schmidt, and they were cultivated, middle class people who considered a talent to be a duty. Her art education began in 1881; she began studying with Rudolph Mauer, a local engraver. At seventeen, she enrolled in the School for Women Artists in Berlin...
Kollwitz first studied etching in 1889-90 in Munich, the artistic center of 19th century Germany. She was greatly influenced at the time by Max Klinger's imaginative etchings...
She was well-known by the time she was thirty. Her final years were not happy, however, for her life was completely disrupted by the fascism sweeping Germany in the late 1930s...
During World War II she was evacuated to Moritzburg, near Dresden. In 1943 a bomb fell on her home in Berlin, destroying early paintings, prints and plates...
Today the street on which Kollwitz lived in Berlin has been renamed in her honor and a park graces the spot where her house once stood.
Yvonne Canu (French, 1921-2008)
Le Petite Port
Oil on Canvas, 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches
Yvonne Canu, born in 1921, was a French painter and followed the influences of the pointillists such as Georges Seurat. Particularly it has been noted that she was strongly influenced by Seurat's masterpiece L'ile de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte)...
She belongs to an interesting trend of French twentieth-century artists who looked to and expanded upon the theories of so-called divisioniste artists of the late 19th century...
She studied at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and gained most acknowledgment for her work after the Second World War. Her work often depicts coastal and harbour scenes.
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