在这部柯勒惠支:一生之像传记片中,Käthe Kollwitz is 47-years-old, already a well-known artist in Germany and abroad. Peter, her youngest son, volunteers to join the German army in WWI and dies two weeks later. This painful tragedy changes Kollwitz’ life and art forever. Always politically active, she now becomes a radical pacifist; in her art she reflects on her son and the meaning of war. After she signs a petition against the Nazis, she is excluded from the Academy of Arts and her art is labeled “degenerate.” Lonely and sick, she spends the last days of her life in Dresden, dying at the age of 78 before the end of WWII.
Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.