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The\u00a0Museum of Modern Art<\/a>\u00a0in New York will soon mount a retrospective for K\u00e4the Kollwitz, the pathbreaking German printmaker whose work often pictured women and the working class and tackled themes life grief and war.<\/p>\n

Organized by MoMA prints and drawings curator Starr Figura, with curatorial assistant Maggie Hire, the exhibition will run March 31 to July 20, 2024, and will mark the artist\u2019s first retrospective at a New York City museum and the first major presentation of her work in the US in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n

Figura first began thinking about organizing an exhibition devoted to Kollwitz around five years ago. Those plans were ultimately delayed by the pandemic, and she took the research back up for the show in earnest in 2021, especially after encountering Kollwitz\u2019s works during her travels to other museums around the world, in particular pieces that aren\u2019t in MoMA\u2019s permanent collection that she was less familiar with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just floored by them,\u201d Figura told\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0in an interview. \u201cThey just hit you with that kind of emotional force. I thought, People need to see this again. I think she\u2019s an artist that we know her name, but at least in the US, and in New York, we haven\u2019t had that many opportunities to see the work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kollwitz, who was born in 1867 in K\u00f6nigsberg (now Kaliningrad), spent the majority of her career in Germany, where she died in 1945. She is still relatively underknown outside specialized circles, particularly in the US, which Figura said she hopes the forthcoming exhibition will change.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe holds an interesting position in art history,\u201d Figura said. \u201cIf you are somebody who\u2019s very interested in the graphic arts, you know her work, if you\u2019re interested in feminist issues, you know her work because she\u2019s very much a touchstone for feminist artists. and women artists, if you are interested in social political art, you know her work. But in terms of the overall history of modernism, she is kind of considered a marginal figure.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cIt\u2019s interesting now as we look at a more diverse canon of art history to think about how she fits into the bigger picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Figura attributes that position to several factors, including her gender, the fact that she worked primarily in the graphic arts, and that her work focused specifically on social justice issues, like highlighting the plight of the working class in the era after industrialization and World War I. Her two main series focused on these topics, \u201cPeasants\u2019 War\u201d (1902\u201308) and \u201cWar\u201d (1921\u201322, published 1923), respectively, will feature in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s interesting is her career trajectory as an artist goes from say, the 1890s to the early 1940s, which is more or less when we think about in art history as the rise of abstraction,\u201d Figura said. \u201cBut during that period, she remains committed to figurative art and an art\u2019s social purpose and representing the underrepresented.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While the checklist is still being finalized, Figura said the show will include around 120 to 130 works, a mix of works from MoMA\u2019s permanent collection (the museum owns around 35 works by Kollwitz) and loans from institutions and collections in the US and Europe. Figura said that a highlight of the exhibition will be seeing the artist\u2019s \u201cincredibly intensive\u201d creative process, particularly in prints that she added to extensively by hand. Among these will be studies and other proofs for her well-known etching\u00a0Woman with Dead Child\u00a0<\/em>(1903).<\/p>\n

Figura added, \u201cKollwitz was constantly revising and reworking and doing everything in her power to find the most expressive means to bring emotional truth into her subjects. By bringing together some of these rare works, where you see her like step by step, working toward a final version of print. It\u2019s absolutely astonishing to see her creative process and her incredible technical abilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kollwitz also worked as a sculptor, and among her most famous pieces is\u00a0Mother with Her Dead Son\u00a0<\/em>(1937\u201338), which is permanently installed in the Neue Wache in Berlin. (A 2015 video by performance artist Isaac Chong Wai that reflects on the sculpture was exhibited by Hong Kong\u2019s Blindspot Gallery at\u00a0Liste in Basel last month<\/a>.) The sculpture reflects on Kollwitz\u2019s personal history: one of her sons was killed during the first months of World War I when he was only 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe deals with that grief for the rest of her life,\u201d Figura said. \u201cGrief had always been a major subject in her work even before her son died, but then it becomes even more so after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Kollwitz died more than 75 years ago, Figura said she sees Kollwitz\u2019s work as \u201cevermore relevant\u201d today, given the past few years from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was interested in her universal message and her emotionalism,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s somebody who speaks to the social and political issues of today, almost as urgently as she did in her own time. Subjects like grief and war\u2014those are all things that are at the forefront of how we\u2019re all dealing with the world today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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