German Prints

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 19, 2008

Spiva Art Gallery
(417) 625-956

 

 

JOPLIN, MO (SNS) - A selection of German prints from the Springfield Art Museum will be on display from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday Aug. 25 through Sept. 19 at the Spiva Art Gallery on the campus of Missouri Southern State University

 

The exhibit is one of the cultural offerings during the “Germany Semester” this fall on the MSSU campus. An opening reception will be held from 4 -6 p.m., Monday, Aug. 25.

 

The reception and the gallery are free and open to the public.

 

The exhibition is a selection of prints by German artists ranging from the 16th to 20th centuries. Traditional handmade printmaking is the original means of mass-producing images, utilizing different techniques all allowing for the creation of multiple originals. The prints in this exhibition include a variety of these traditional processes including woodcut, etching, and lithography.

 

The selection of works include artists such as Albrecht Durer, Goerge Grosz, and Josef Albers, These works show the plight of common working people and display authentic human emotions in facial expressions and gestures.

 

The artist most represented in the exhibit is the pioneer expressionist Kathe Kollwitz, the first woman to be elected to the Prussian Academy of Art. She is noted for her relief prints from the early 20th century exploring the austere themes of suffering and death.

 

 

 

 

 

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