Printmaker and sculptor whose stark graphics record grief, hunger and war with almost unbearable directness.
Radical
Monumental
Labor & Domesticity
Fun fact
She was the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts, and was forced out by the Nazis in 1933.
How she made it
Etching, lithography and woodcut worked to extremes of black. She reworked plates through many states, adding soft-ground and sandpaper texture, and in her woodcuts gouged broad planks so the grain and tool marks carry the grief.
