The impact of the war on the works of Kette Clovits

 At the end of the war, Clovits had a short time to continue his work.  She was the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy (in 1918) and in 1928 became the Academy's Director of Graphic Arts.  But even in the years after the war, in his works, he depicted the sadness of simple and humble people, mothers who lost their children and hungry children.  During these years he created the last masterpiece of his career, the woodcuts he exhibited in 1923, which followed with inexorable and powerful logic the earlier series of engravings of the Weavers' Revolution and the Peasants' War.  And once he made elaborate posters in lithography and wanted to end the war.

Clovits' post-war work continues to convey the devastating impact of war on everyday people, a powerful testament to the enduring legacy of his art.