Yu Xiaodong: Kollwitz is one of the most worshipped masters

Kaethe Kollwitz (1867-1945),

German printmaker and sculptor.

Born into a family of Christian priests, he began studying painting at the age of 14.

In 1898, she began teaching at the Berlin Women's Academy.

Representative works include "Weaver's Revolt" and "Uprising"

"Death and Women", "War" (group painting), "Mother and Son", etc.

The French writer Romain Roland said of her:

"The work of Kaisser Kollwitz is the greatest poetry of modern Germany,

It illuminates the hardships and sorrows of the poor and the common people..."

Her paintings can be teaching materials for learning drawing, composition and modeling language.

Composition and modeling are expressing emotions and expressing the spirit,

Sympathy, love, anger, and concern are all vented in such a compositional form,

The elements of painting have a spiritual content.

Appreciation of Kollwitz's works

Yu Xiaodong: Kollwitz is one of the masters I most admire, and he is the only female haojie among painters. I was greatly influenced by her and I learned composition and styling from her. I learned from her that the language of painting can express the emotions of the deepest heart in such a way. Those works will never be boring, and will always move and purify us.