Georgia O'keeffe and Kathe Kollwitz

East River No. 1, Georgia O'keeffe

City Night, Georgia O'keeffe

Deers Skull with Pedernal, Georgia O'keeffe

Georgia O'keeffe was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Kathe Kollwitz was born on July 8, 1867 in Germany. Georgia O'keeffe was a precisionism landscape artist. Kathe Kollwitz was a Germany expressionist artist. Both artists born in the same period of time, but their different location help form their style.

Georgia O'keeffe's known for her New Mexico landscapes like Deers Skull with Pedernal. In Deers Skull with Pedernal, O'keeffe said that the bones did not represent death to her. Georgia O'keeffe's paintings did not evoke a depressing emotion like Kathe Kollwitz's art. O'keeffe primarily painted in oil until the mid 1970s. Georgia O'keeffe also painted urban landscapes like City Night and East River No 1. Georgia O'keeffe's primarily focus in her paintings was colour. Georgia O'keeffe was influenced by Albert Stieglitz, a famous photographer, which is apparent in her photographs. Georgia O'keeffe and Albert Stieglitz later married each other. Georgia O'keeffe's painting, Bella Donna, looks like a photograph that was taken in macro.

Bella Donna, Georgia O'keeffe

Kathe Kollwitz was an expressionist artist. Kollwitz's artwork evokes a strong emotion response. Kollwitz depicts war and the terrible aftermath of it. Kollwitz focuses on the people who are affected by war like the parents, children, and women. Kollwitz's drawing, Killed in Action, evokes the emotion from the viewer because the wife is left alone with children to feed and the news of her loved one is dead. Kathe Kollwitz's artwork is almost entirely in black and white. There is no colour in Kollwitz's artwork like her etching piece Need, which enhances the emotional response from the viewer that the world is devastating and bleak.

Kathe Kollwitz lived in Germany during World War I, the raise of Hitler, and World War II. Her death in April 22, 1945 was in Moritzburg, Germany, the end of World War II in Europe was in May 1945. Kollwitz lived through and witnessed one of Germany's darkest period of history. Kathe Kollwitz reminds the viewer of the atrocities of war and poverty. After World War I, Germany had a high percentage of people living in poverty which is depicted in Kollwitz's woodcut piece Hunger.

Georgia O'keeffe lived through World War I and World War II also, but she lived in the United States which was not in the forefront of the wars. Georgia O'keeffe's art did not focus on war or the human figure, but the beauty of the landscape of New Mexico and New York.

 Both of the artists lived in the same time period, but they were in different art movements. Georgia O'keeffe was a precisionism artist. Precisionism was the first modern-art movement in the United States. Precisionism is also known as Cubist-Realism. Kathe Kollwitz was an expressionist, showing the horrors and atrocities that war creates. 

Hunger, Kathe Kollwitz

Need, Kathe Kollwitz

Killed in Action, Kathe Kollwitz