Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition 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… -Wikipedia

Sadly I haven’t named all of them with their title when I’ve saved them and so I don’t have them, and don’t have the energy to look them all up…

The Widow

Käthe Kollwitz was one of my first artist loves! I found out about her when I was about 16 and was supposed to paraphrase an art piece for school and I used the one below (Memorial sheet for Karl Liebknecht) but themed as the Death of Salvador Allende (my political art pretentiousness aspirations were high! The finished drawing was not so good but still…)

Bread

I recommend the Käthe Kollwitz museum in Berlin, I went there with John when I was 17 and wish I could go again. From what I remember it had like three (?) floors full of original drawings and etchings and we were there for ages cause I couldn’t stop looking…