ID: 8767  -  Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani  -  Firenze Type: Text    Kollwitz Notes Format: Medium: Extent: Identifier: , Source: Title: Käthe Kollwitz Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Rukeyser, Muriel Role: Name: Created: date unknown Date: in/on: Language: English Rights: William L. Rukeyser (Davis, California) Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Berg Collection, N. Y. Public Library Coverage: Place: Time: Description: Typed notes Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Arti/Facts Subjects: Arti/Facts Subjects: Arti/Facts Subjects: Definitions of Culture Subjects: Internationalism/Transnationalism Subjects: Internationalism/Transnationalism Subjects: War Subjects: War Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Keywords: anti-fascism Keywords: anti-nazism Keywords: artists Keywords: consciousness raising Keywords: socialism Keywords: workers Keywords: drawing Keywords: etching Keywords: sculpture Keywords: contemporary Keywords: fascism Keywords: Nazism Keywords: death Keywords: Europe Keywords: creativity Keywords: history Keywords: Kollwitz, Käthe Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, anti-fascism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, anti-nazism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, artists) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, consciousness raising) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, socialism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, workers) Query Subject+Keyword: (Arti/Facts, drawing) Query Subject+Keyword: (Arti/Facts, etching) Query Subject+Keyword: (Arti/Facts, sculpture) Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, contemporary) Query Subject+Keyword: (Internationalism/Transnationalism, fascism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Internationalism/Transnationalism, Nazism) Query Subject+Keyword: (War, death) Query Subject+Keyword: (War, Europe) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, creativity) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, history) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Kollwitz, Käthe) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Rukeyser, Muriel) Comment: This is a ‘cutting’ about Käthe Kollwitz’s life, which is undated, but that might be assigned (by means of internal evidence) to the period under scrutiny. These notes are primarily about how Rukeyser aesthetically ‘listened’ to Kollwitz’s thoughts and feelings as they were expressed through her art. They also reveal the powerful relationship that existed, for Rukeyser, between history, consciousness and creativity, her consistent ethics underlying all of her activism and poetry, her way of saying – through a German artist’s life and work - that the struggle is neither to be concluded, nor abandoned. As we know, these notes would develop into a poem – that is a “transfer of human energy” - many years later. The poem, entitled “Käthe Kollwitz”, is the one that presents the famous couplet: “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life / The world would split open”.