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chagalov: Käthe Kollwitz, 1917 -by Hugo Erfurth   [+] Mother loved laughter and longed for opportunities to laugh. People who have known her only in her serious moods, sitting with kind, melancholy eyes, listening attentively, or who know her only in her works, do not know the part of her that delighted in affirmation, in young people, in wit, laughter, high spirits and comedy. They do not know how she loved liveliness and grace of movement, which for her were embodied in the Viennese dancer Grethe Wiesenthal. Whenever Frau Wiesenthal visited Berlin she would always come to see Mother, and both Mother and I were captivated by her irresistible laughter and her gaiety, which we so loved and could not achieve for ourselves.— Hans Kollwitz, in the introduction to ‘Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz’, transl. by Clara Winston (Northwestern University Press, 1989) from grisebach

chagalov:

Käthe Kollwitz, 1917 -by Hugo Erfurth   [+]

Mother loved laughter and longed for opportunities to laugh. People who have known her only in her serious moods, sitting with kind, melancholy eyes, listening attentively, or who know her only in her works, do not know the part of her that delighted in affirmation, in young people, in wit, laughter, high spirits and comedy. They do not know how she loved liveliness and grace of movement, which for her were embodied in the Viennese dancer Grethe Wiesenthal. Whenever Frau Wiesenthal visited Berlin she would always come to see Mother, and both Mother and I were captivated by her irresistible laughter and her gaiety, which we so loved and could not achieve for ourselves.
— Hans Kollwitz, in the introduction to ‘Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz’, transl. by Clara Winston (Northwestern University Press, 1989)

from grisebach

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