Images
Images...
Note: In this section, click on the picture to see a "zoomed in"
image. I have moved all of the pictures of my family
and friends, so
this page is a bit barren right now, sorry!
I do have a somewhat random collection
of images that you are welcome to look at.. the ones that look
sketched or have "jld" in the name, I created.. the rest are, well, a
mixture of things (rated G of course).
This is a picture I really liked from my German I/II textbook:
It was created by Kathe Kollwitz, and it's called "Lachelnde
Mutter mit Jungen". According to my German book, "Kathe Kollwitz's
lithographs and etchings portray working people oppressed by poverty,
war, cold, and hunger; mothers and children; and death. Born in 1867,
she married "the doctor to the poor", Karl Kollwitz, in Berlin. The
couple had two sons, Hans and Peter. In 1919 Kathe Kollwitz was elected
to the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, the first woman to have this honor
bestowed upon her; but in 1933 she was expelled from the academy by the
Hitler regime. Her husband and her son Peter died in World War II, and
in 1943 she lost everything in a bombing raid in Berlin. She died in
1945 in Moritzburg, near Dresden, a few days before the war ended. It is
not surprising that one of the last themes for her etchings was called
"Vom Tode" (about death)."
- taken without permission from "Alles
Gute!", by Briggs, Crean and Strasser
And in case you're interested, the very cute nose in the background, if
you see it, belongs to Rachel at the age of 3.
The end.
It was created by Kathe Kollwitz, and it's called "Lachelnde
Mutter mit Jungen". According to my German book, "Kathe Kollwitz's
lithographs and etchings portray working people oppressed by poverty,
war, cold, and hunger; mothers and children; and death. Born in 1867,
she married "the doctor to the poor", Karl Kollwitz, in Berlin. The
couple had two sons, Hans and Peter. In 1919 Kathe Kollwitz was elected
to the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, the first woman to have this honor
bestowed upon her; but in 1933 she was expelled from the academy by the
Hitler regime. Her husband and her son Peter died in World War II, and
in 1943 she lost everything in a bombing raid in Berlin. She died in
1945 in Moritzburg, near Dresden, a few days before the war ended. It is
not surprising that one of the last themes for her etchings was called
"Vom Tode" (about death)."