Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Käthe Kollwitz German Expressionist print stolen from Leicester's New Walk Museum

Officials at Leicester City Council, which runs the museum, have released details of the crime after the Leicester Mercury was tipped off by a source.












"German stamp- Käthe Kollwitz".
Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons


There have a number of thefts from New Walk Museum over the years ... After the 2012 thefts the council invested £90,000 in upgrading security at the museum.



Käthe Kollwitz (8 July 1867 – 22 April 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate, expressed most famously through the graphic means of drawing, etching, lithography, and woodcut, embraced the victims of poverty, hunger, and war.