Sketch Book for the Artist

Losbruch (The Outbreak)

1955

20 x 233 / 8 in (507 x 592 mm)

KATHE KOLLWITZ

Scratched lines This is a dry-point

etching with monoprint. The image

was scratched directly onto a metal

plate. Ink rolled over was selectively

polished off using a rag. What

remained in scratched grooves

printed on damp paper as lines,

and controlled smears on the metal

surface printed as tones. White

marks were made with a dusting of

French chalk on the artist's finger to

wipe away ink leaving clean metal.

KATHE KOLLWITZ

German printmaker, sculptor

and draftsman, who lived in a

poor district of Berlin. Kollwitz

survived the two World Wars,

and her powerful and sensitive

drawings center on nurture,

poverty, and the impact of

death and war upon women,

children, and the family home.

HEATH ROBINSON
British humorous illustrator
and a regular contributor to
magazines and journals such
as The Sketch and The
Bystander. Robinson and
Kollwitz (above) share almost
identical life dates and their
work expresses a shared
history from opposite sides
of the world wars.

Pen and wash This is a pen-and-

watercolor drawing made for a

color-plate reproduction in an

edition of The Bystander. With

masterful gentility, Heath Robinson

shows England in a past era,

plodding along with hazy, stoical

bemusement. He created humor

by making his characters earnest,

sincere, and clearly focused, however

meager or ridiculous their activity.

The Kinecar

1926

103 / 8 x 15 in (262 x 380 mm)

HEATH ROBINSON

THE

HUMAN

CONDITION