title: Fascination and misunderstanding. Käthe Kollwitz and Russia
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metadata.value: Chechot, Ivan D.
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metadata.value: 2016-08-02T14:06:57Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2016-08-02T14:06:57Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-06
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metadata.value: Chechot I. D. Fascination and misunderstanding. Käthe Kollwitz and Russia. Vestnik of Saint-Petersburg University. Ser. 15. Arts, 2016, issue 2, pp. 119–137. DOI: 10.21638/11701/spbu15.2016.209
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/2537
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metadata.value: The article examines the phenomenon of enthusiasm about Russia and Russian culture in the life of the
  German artist Käthe Kollwitz. Speaking about the reasons for “Russian phenomenon” in the biography
  of Kollwitz, the author emphasizes the role of social and historical factors, such as: the impact of
  Protestantism, Julius Rupp and Free Evangelical community of Königsberg on Kollwitz; her sympathy
  to the ideals of social-democratic movement, the growth of revolutionary sentiment in Russia and
  Germany at the turn of 19th–20th centuries; the First World War and the October Revolution which
  provoked a worldwide wave of interest in the new Soviet Russia and its path. On the material of diaries
  and letters the evolution of Kollwitz’s relationship to the Russian mentality and socio-philosophical
  thought and in particular to the work of Gorky and the teachings of Leo Tolstoy is traced. The article
  shows a detailed view of Kollwitz’s dispute with Russian thinkers on ethics, faith and the meaning of
  life, perception of death, and the need for revolution. A side story is told about the contact of Kollwitz
  art with the world of Russian art and it is seen through the prism of the antinomies of Russian and
  German national aesthetics (soft and hard, formlessness and form, musicality and severity, and etc.).
  The author formulates the problem of mutual understanding between the two nations — Russian and
  German, alluding to the fact that charm is always accompanied by a misunderstanding. The latter is
  clearly evidenced by the history of the reception of the work of Kollwitz in the USSR, where she has
  long played the role of representative of «realism». However, according to the author, her work is more
  appropriate to consider in the context of the “austere style”. Refs 12.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 15. Arts;Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Käthe Kollwitz
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian-German ties
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social democratic movement in Germany
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Karl Liebknecht
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leo Tolstoy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Protestantism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Julius Rupp
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War I
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Goethe
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Fascination and misunderstanding. Käthe Kollwitz and Russia
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metadata.value: Article
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