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The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

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The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz provide a rare glimpse into the life and thoughts of one of Germany's most influential artists. Through her personal writings, readers can explore Kollwitz's experiences, inspirations, and challenges as she navigated the complexities of her personal and professional life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz provide a rare glimpse into the life and thoughts of one of Germany's most influential artists. Through her personal writings, readers can explore Kollwitz's experiences, inspirations, and challenges as she navigated the complexities of her personal and professional life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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“For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.”

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“How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.”

Long Hands Wanted Periods Technique Thrown Again And Again Back And Forth Back Again Blocked

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“Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.”

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“Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.”

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“As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the higher up the mountain you climb, the less of a view you get. A mist closes in and cheats you of the hoped-for and expected opportunity to see far and wide.”

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“Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.”

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“Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only when there were obstacles and halts to the flow of life, seldom when everything was smooth and even. ... As I read I distinctly felt what a half-truth a diary presents.”

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“The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.”

Form Spirit Found Nations Conditions Development Blind Preserves Alleys Rivalry

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“If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.”

People Ifs Has Beens War Joy Hurt Died Been Hurt

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“I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.”

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“Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.”

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“Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?”

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“Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.”

War Answers Carrie Anti War No War

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“I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.”

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“While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.”

Children Felt Responsibility Burden Drawing Terrified Advocating

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“There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more.”

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“There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.”

Feels Moments Moving Sky Gratitude Window Blue Clouds Sincere Blue Sky Deep Gratitude Sincere Gratitude

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“No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.”

Way Work Emotion Cows

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“Men without joy seem like corpses.”

Men Seems Joy Corpses

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“To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.”

Knows Inspired Related This Day

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