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Kollwitz let grief be a tonal range — bone, charcoal, and the warm grey of ink across cotton paper, no colour beyond what the subject could carry.

Käthe Kollwitz

Painter · Expressionism · 1867–1945

German printmaker and sculptor whose mothers and grief images worked in charcoal, bone, and the warm grey of pressed lithographic ink.

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Kollwitz let grief be a tonal range — bone, charcoal, and the warm grey of ink across cotton paper, no colour beyond what the subject could carry.

German printmaker and sculptor whose mothers and grief images worked in charcoal, bone, and the warm grey of pressed lithographic ink.

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