German artist Kathe Kollwitz faces death — again and again — at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Monday April 23, 2018
Death stalks every line of Kathe Kollwitz’s rough, rich drawings, bleak and enthralling in their visceral heft. Heavy, indeed, is one way to think of them; standing in too dense a cluster of their coal-coloured swipes can give the feeling of being buried alive.
An array of them staggered on a blue-black wall of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the grateful recipient of a donation of 170 Kollwitz prints and drawings, makes an artful display, perhaps to soften the blow. Nothing could.
