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What English artist's work inspired Kollwitz to become an artist? |
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What printmaking technique did Kollwitz teach herself in the 1890s? |
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What play by Gerhardt Hauptman inspired Kollwitz's first major print cycle? |
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Why didn’t Kollwitz receive the gold medal at the Berlin Art Exhibition of 1898? |
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| it was vetoed by the emperor |
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| What historical event was probably the inspiration for Kollwitz's second major print cycle"? |
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| documentation of the peasant revolts in Germany in the early-16th century, brought on by conditions that may have been as bad |
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| What prize did Kollwitz win in 1908? |
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Why was the period of World War 1 one of personal tragedy for Kollwitz? |
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| her 18-year-old son was killed in Flanders |
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| a friend of the family and was also a vocal protester against the war |
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What was Kollwitz's print cycle War intended to represent? |
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| the reaction of women as wives and mothers to war |
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How was Kollwitz affected by the rise of the Nazis? |
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| she was dropped from the Berlin Academy of Art in its move toward the propagandistic art of the Third Reich |
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To what artists' colony did Paula Modersohn-Becker move in 1897? |
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| Why was Modersohn-Becker's career short? |
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| died from complications following childbirth |
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| Why were the works of Nolde's series The Life of Christ rejected for the Brussels World Exposition? |
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because of the protests of the Belgian clergy, who saw the works as sacrilegious |
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| In 1913, Nolde joined an ethnological expedition to what destination? |
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| went through Russia to Korea and China and ended in the South Seas |
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What did nolde do during the Second World War? |
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| worked in secret during the 1940's, and after the war continued to paint until his death |
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