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20th Century Art History 1 - video 11
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
06/18/2012

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What English artist's work inspired Kollwitz to become an artist?

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William Hogarth 
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What printmaking technique did Kollwitz teach herself in the 1890s?

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etching
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What play by Gerhardt Hauptman inspired Kollwitz's first major print cycle?

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"The Weavers" 
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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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Villa Romana Prize
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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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Who was Karl Liebknecht?

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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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Worpswede 
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What was Heimatkunst?
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Hearth art
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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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