Käthe Schmidt in WWII

Käthe Schmidt

A German painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Renowned for works centered on poverty, the lives of workers, war, death, and mothers and children, she expressed deep empathy for the socially vulnerable and anti-war ideals through her art. Her representative print series include "The Weavers' Uprising", "Peasants' War", "War", and "Death"; the loss of her younger son Peter in World War I profoundly influenced her subsequent anti-war works. In 1919, she became the first woman to be elected a full member and professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts, but following the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933, she was forced from her position and had her exhibitions restricted. Near the end of World War II, she evacuated Berlin for Moritzburg and died shortly before the war's end.

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Year	Käthe Schmidt
1524	German Peasants' War (Age: 343 years before birth, Period: 1524–1525, Location: Holy Roman Empire centered on southern Germany)
1844	Silesian weavers' uprising (Age: 23 years before birth, Period: 1844, Location: Langenbielau (modern Bielawa, Poland) and other parts of Silesia)
1867	Birth of Käthe Schmidt (Period: July 8, 1867, Location: Kaliningrad (Russia; known as Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia at the time of her birth))
1886	Art education in Berlin and Munich (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1886–1890, Location: Berlin, Munich, Germany)
1891	Relocation to Berlin and marriage (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1891, Location: Berlin, Germany) Marriage (Käthe Schmidt, Käthe Kollwitz, Age: 23 years old, Period: June 21, 1891, Location: Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia)
1893	Creation of "The Weavers' Uprising" (Age: 25 years old, Period: c. 1893–1897, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1898	Refusal of the gold medal for "The Weavers' Uprising" artwork (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1898, Location: Berlin, Germany) Exhibition and reception of "The Weavers' Uprising" (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1898, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1902	Creation of the "Peasants' War" series (Age: 34 years old, Period: 1902–1908, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1907	Stay in Florence (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1907, Location: Florence, Italy)
1914	World War I (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France) Death in action of second son Peter Kollwitz (Age: 47 years old, Period: October 22, 1914, Location: Near Diksmuide, Belgium)
1918	German Revolution and end of World War I (Age: 50 years old, Period: 1918–1919, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1919	First female full member and professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1919, Location: Berlin, Germany) Assassination of German Communist Party leader Karl Liebknecht (Age: 51 years old, Period: January 15, 1919, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1920	Creation of the "War" series (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1920–1923, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1924	Creation of "Never Again War" (Nie wieder Krieg, Age: 56 years old, Period: 1924, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1932	Completion of "The Grieving Parents" for Peter (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1932, Location: Rogoznica war cemetery, Belgium)
1933	Suppression of artistic activities by the Nazi regime (Age: 65 years old, Period: Post-1933, Location: Berlin, Germany) Forced resignation from the Academy by the Nazi regime (Age: 65 years old, Period: 1933, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1934	Creation of "Death" series (Age: 66 years old, Period: c. 1934–1935, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1936	Gestapo threats and interrogation (Age: 68 years old, Period: July 1936, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1939	World War II (Age: 71 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.)
1942	Creation of "Do Not Grind the Seed" (Age: 74 years old, Period: 1942, Location: Germany)
1943	Evacuation from Berlin (Age: 75 years old, Period: 1943–1944, Location: Berlin, Nordhausen, Moritzburg) Destruction of home and works due to the bombing of Berlin (Age: 76 years old, Period: November 1943, Location: Berlin, Weissenburger Strasse)
1945	Death of Käthe Schmidt (Age: 77 years old, Period: April 22, 1945)

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Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler Paul von Hindenburg Hermann Göring Joseph Goebbels Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Hess Martin Ludwig Bormann Joachim von Ribbentrop Albert Speer Hermann Wilhelm Göring Paul Joseph Goebbels
Weimar Republic	Friedrich Ebert Gustav Stresemann Wilhelm Marx Heinrich Brüning Hermann Müller Friedrich Naumann Matthias Erzberger Walther Rathenau
German Anti-Nazis	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Hans Oster Ludwig Beck Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Erwin von Witzleben Hans Scholl Sophie Scholl Alexander Schmorell Christoph Probst
Warsaw Ghetto	Mordechai Anielewicz Marek Edelman Tuvia Bielski Abba Kovner Henryk Goldszmit Emanuel Ringelblum
Arts & Music	Pablo Picasso Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky Käthe Schmidt Oskar Kokoschka Egon Schiele Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern

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