New Benton Exhibition Explores Work of Käthe Kollwitz, Who Used Art as Platform for Activism
This is the first solo exhibition of the artist s work at UConn since 2007
One of Kollwitz s characteristically stark etchings, this depicts workers mourning the German Communist Karl Liebknecht, who was murdered by state forces in 1919. (Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), Gedenkblatt für Karl Liebknecht [In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht] (1919), Etching, William Benton Museum of Art, The Walter Landauer Collection of Käthe Kollwitz.) Copy Link
The German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was a printmaker who used her art to advocate against social injustice, war, and inhumanity. Her name is among those taken by the feminist activist artists known as Guerrilla Girls to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in politics, the arts, and pop culture.