Georgia O’Keefe was born in Wisconsin in 1887. She studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students Leagues in New York City. Her work was first shown in New York in 1916 when a friend showed her artwork to Alfred Stieglitz who owned a gallery. Although she lived in New York for a while she liked painting desert landscapes more and moved back to New Mexico in 1929. She painted mostly with watercolors and later started painting mostly in oil. Her paintings were of natural forms like flowers but close up and on very large canvas.
Kathe Kollwitz was born in a province of Prussia but her nationality is German. She studied at an art school for women in Berlin. When she discovered that her artistic strength wasn’t in painting but in drawing. She did mainly drawings, prints, sculptures, and wood cuts. The images she drew were often very dark with people suffering.
Georgia O’Keefe mostly painted colorful landscapes and flowers. While Kathe Kollwitz mostly drew darker images. O’Keefe was influenced by her surroundings, such as the New Mexico landscapes or the New York landscapes, which led to her painting more vibrant colorful images. Kollwitz was influenced by her surroundings as well which included being in Europe during World War One and World War Two which led to her drawings being of much darker and more sad images. The two artists are very different with different styles, mediums, and subjects, and there is not very much that is similar about their artwork.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills, 1935
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1924
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Poppy, 1927
Kathe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait, Hand at the Forehead, 1910
Kathe Kollwitz, The Mothers, 1922
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