Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz was born July 8, 1867 in Konigsberg, Prussia which is now part of Russia. She died on April 22, 1945 at the age of 78, just two weeks before World War II ended. Kathe was the second child in her family. Her family was a very smart and active middle class group. Her parents encouraged Kathe and her siblings to be active in political and social causes to help develop their talents which lead to Kathe becoming an artist. She received an award for the best art training for women in Berlin and Munich. Kollwitz did most of her work in prints and drawings. She concentrated on black and white. During the time Kollwitz was becoming an artist, the environment was made up of mostly men artist, but she was a woman whose life and art focused on women. Kathe was engaged to Karl Kollwitz for seven years. They married and had two sons. Their first son was born in 1892 and was named Hans, their second son named Peter was born in 1896. Kathe’s husband was a doctor and they opened a joint doctor’s office and artist studio which was in operation for 50 …show more content…
Some of her famous pieces were The Widow, from War 1921-22 published in 1923. Also the piece titled Self-Portrait with Hand on Her Forehead 1910. She first gained recognition for two series The Weavers (1893-1898) and The Peasant War (1902-1908). Kollwitz was known for themes related to social protests. She defended the poor in her art. She became famous for her pieces in black and white woodcuts. Her piece The Weavers was the first important series which portrayed the tragic strike by German weavers against factory owners in 1840. Kollwitz War (1923) was a piece that expressed women’s reaction against war. This piece was inspired by the death of her son Peter in World War I. Her most famous piece was a war memorial called The Mother and The Father (1931-1932) which symbolized the death of soldiers and their families suffering and the grief they
Ruth Posner is one of the many few holocaust survivors and a great dancer, choreographer and actress. Ruth was born on April 20, 1933, in Warsaw. She was raised in a Jewish family with her parents, but went to a Catholic school. At home, she spoke Polish. Ruth suddenly started hearing offensive comments by some of her close Polish Catholic friends. They said things like “you killed Christ.” It was an incredible shock.” That was just the beginning. By the time she was just 12, and the Second World War was underway, Ruth had lost both her parents and her world as she knew it. She was in the middle of the Holocaust.
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
Helene Melanie Lebel, one of two daughters born to a Jewish family, was raised as a Catholic in Vienna. Her father died during World War I when Helene was only 5 years old, and when Helene was 15, her mother remarried. Helene entered law school, but at age 19, she started showing signs of an illness. By 1935, her illness became so bad severe that she had to give up her law studies. Helene was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and was placed in Vienna’s Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital. Although her condition improved in 1940, Helene was forced to stay in Steinhof. Her parents believed she would soon be released, but in August, her mother was informed that Helene was transferred to Niedernhart. She was actually transported to Brandenburg, Germany where she was led into a gas chamber or room? disguised as a shower room, and was gassed to death. Helene was listed as dying in her room of “acute schizophrenic excitement”.
Katherine Johnson is a memorable African American mathematician and an icon for young black girls around the world. Katherine Johnson loved math. Early in her career, she was called a “computer.” She helped NASA put an astronaut into orbit around Earth, and then she helped put a man on the moon.
Kurt Schwitters was born June 20, 1887. Schwitters was an only child, who traveled around a bunch with his father. In the beginning of his life, he had quite a good childhood, besides when he started to have epileptic fits. At age 14, he had his first epileptic fit, which was the start of the recurring condition. He felt continually impacted how he related to the world. Kurt Schwitters was a German Painter, Collagist, and writer. Schwitters went to study art and drawing at Dresden Academy. On October 5, 1915, Kurt married his cousin, Helma Fisher, which had one son who died after birth. The couple had a second child, Ernst, in 1918. Kurt was really close to his son. Ernst spent much of his time with his father before he went to school. He used Schwitter’s studio for making his own drawing and college. He
Furthermore, Kathe Kollwitz lived a very prodigious yet dynamic evocative life and her legacy will be in eternal revere. She was born on July 8, 1867 in Konigsberg of East Prussia. She was born in the mid-late years of the 19th century. Kollwitz had the desire to study art and pursued this ambition in Berlin. She worked under Karl Stauffer-Bern at the sc...
Canada’s Prima Ballerina: Karen Kain Zoe Valbuena N.Francis CHC2D1 12/19/17 The National Ballet of Canada, a classical ballet company established in 1951 by Celia Franca, hosting repertoires from a range of traditional pieces to pieces developed by Canadians in modern era (Crabb, National Ballet of Canada). As of today, its artistic director Karen Kain; a former ballet dancer herself, has lead the company to its successful status as a prideful arts organization (National Ballet of Canada). Kain was a well-renowned dancer of her time, her technique in movement and good sense of musicality lead her to an all-time high in her career, continuing to dance past the age of 40.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850, Kate Chopin was an influential woman who endured many tragedies throughout her lifetime. She grew up in a bilingual and bicultural home of English and French, mostly raised by the widowed women in her family (Kate Chopin). Her father had died when she was five years old when his train crossed a collapsing bridge and all her siblings died in infancy or in their early twenties. From then till she was about sixteen years, her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother educated Chopin in French and music. She then reentered the Sacred Heart Academy and graduated top of her class (Wyatt). At age twenty, Chopin married Oscar Chopin and they moved down to New Orleans where they raised their seven children until Oscar died of malaria nearly twelve years after they were married. Chopin moved back to St. Louis with her children to live with her mother, until she died a year later, leaving Chopin alone. She died in 1904, only days after visiting the World’s Fair in St. Louis, of a cerebral hemorrhage (Kate Chopin).
After working with the Red Cross efforts during the war, Hoch would return to Germany and her art work. She would first form a friendship with the influential dada artist Raoul Hausmann at the age of 24 in 1915. This relations...
Kate Chopin was born February 8, 1850 in St. Louis. She was raised by a single woman; this impacted her views in the family at an early age. She began her own family at a young age; Kate had a different method compare too many women in her time. As time progressed, she developed a bad habit of dressing inappropriately. Soon she started to publish stories about the experiences and stories of her interests such as women’s individuality and miserable
She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on February 8, 1850 (KateChopin.org, n.d.). Her name Catherine O’Flaherty and she was the second child. She was both bilingual and bicultural. “ From 1855 to 1868 Kate attended the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart, with one year at the Academy of the Visitation” (KateChopin.org, n.d.). Her father then died when she was only five years old. In 1855, he was killed in a railroad accident. Stated by Amber, “Her great grandmother, Madame Charlesville, took a special interest in Kate and taught her French and how to play the piano. She also taught her about the lives of the women, about how ‘women are torn between duty and desire’ (Toth 13). She also taught Kate ‘not to judge people rashly, but to face truths fearlessly’ (Toth 14). The greatest lesson she taught Kate was that a women had to be independent (Toth15).” In 1863 her great grandmother died when Kate was just 12 years old. Soon after that her half-brother died of Typhoid Fever. Kate married Oscar in 1870. ““I am going to be married,” Kate confided in her commonplace book, “married to the right man. It does not seem strange as I had thought it would–I feel perfectly calm, perfectly collected. And how surprised everyone was, for I had kept it so secret!” (KateChopin.org, n.d.).
Kate Chopin was one of the most influential nineteenth century American fiction writers. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri on either one of three dates: February 8, 1851, February 8, 1850, or July 12, 1850, depending on the source. She once said that she was born in 1851, but her baptismal certificate states February 8, 1850 as her birthday (Inge, 2). There is also an indiscretion regarding the spelling of her name. Her full name is Katherine O’Flaherty Chopin, but one source spells her first name with a ‘C’ (Katherine, 1). Her father, Thomas O’Flaherty, was an Irish immigrant who became a successful merchant in St. Louis. Her mother, Eliza Faris O’Flaherty, came from a wealthy aristocratic Creole family (Inge, 2). Kate Chopin was a student at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis. Here she learned the Catholic teachings and great intellectual discipline. She graduated from this French school in 1868 (Inge, 2). On June 9th in 1870, she married Oscar Chopin. Together the couple had six children: Jean (1871), Oscar (1873), George (1874), Frederick (1876), Felix (1878), and Lelia (1879) (Inge, 3).
Many associate the Berlin Dada movement with Raoul Hausmann, Johannes Baader, Hans Richter, George Grosz, John Heartfield and Weiland Herzfelde, and very few associate the art movement with Hannah Hoch. Although Hoch was overshadowed by her male contemporaries, she did not hesitate from being an active member of the Berlin Dada creating timeless and critical artworks. She is best known for being a pioneer in photomontage, a technique that was instrumental not just for Hoch, but for many Berlin Dadaists. Her most well-known photomontages are satirical and political commentaries on Weimar’s redefinition of the social roles of women, also known as the concept of the “new woman”. If during her early years she would create artworks that attempted to portray the concept of the “new woman”, in her later years she began creating artworks that responded to this new Weimarian
Furthermore, the art piece is only in shades of black and white, which really intensifies the sadness and darkness. The expressions on the faces, the quality of the lines, the texture, and the absence of color capture the deep emotion of the figures in such a compelling way. During the period in which the piece was created, it was popular to paint in a socialistic style. Kollwitz accurately did this in all of her pieces by depicting social movements, peasant uprisings, the impact of war, and the life of the worker. Her style can be categorized even further by saying that it was a form of German expressionism. This
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter, born on the July the 6th, 1907. She was born in small town on the outskirts of Mexico, called Couyocan. Her family lived in a house they built themselves, La Casa Azul, or “The Blue House”. It’s name comes from the structures bright blue walls, and now stands as the Frida Kahlo Museum. At the age of fifteen, Kahlo was enrolled in the National Prepatory School of Mexico, where she was one of only a thirty-five female students. With the dream of becoming a medical doctor, Kahlo studied sciences at the school. But, on Septemer 17th, 1925, Kahlo experienced the fateful accident which changed her life forever. She had been riding on a bus with her boyfriend, Alejandro Gomez Arias, when the vehicle collided with a tram. The accident had left several people dead, and Kahlo with many injuries. Some of which were broken collar bone, fractures in her right leg, a crushed foot and a broken spinal column. The injuries left her in a full-body cast for months on end and was confined to her bed for this time. Kahlo also was left with fertility complications after handrail had pierced her uterus. The tragic event left Kahlo in a world of unbearable pain and also boredom. It was during her bed-ridden recovery where she took up the practice of painting, with herself as the subject. Her mother had made her an easel to paint in bed, where she developed her skills of painting. Her first self portrait, “Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress”, was her first serious piece which she painted in 1926. She painted it as a present to her boyfriend, Alejandro Gomez Arias. The artwork was fairly muted in colour and was quite a traditional European-style artwork. But, as Kahlo continued painting her works transitioned from the acade...