Käthe Kollwitz and Marlene Dumas: Three exhibitions at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
(Artdaily.org)

To honour the legacy of one of the 20th century’s most significant artists, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden’s major autumn exhibition in the Kupferstich-Kabinett is dedicated to the work of Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945). Around 70 masterpieces of graphic art from the SKD’s collections are being showcased to mark the 150th anniversary of her birth. The exhibition presents a comprehensive view of her early work, supplemented by works by Max Klinger, Eugène Carrière, Edvard Munch and Ernst Barlach, as well as loans from the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Kollwitz’s works represent perfect examples of the experimentation with new graphic forms of expression that was taking place around 1900. In view of its quality and particular correlation between