Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), one of the great German ... or already reduced to a dark-socketed skull. Plate 3, “The Parents,” is perhaps the most distilled and elemental image of suffering ...

Kathe Kollwitz built, and then lost ... Plate 3 from Krieg (War): The Parents, 1921–22 Woman with Dead Child, 1903 She understood all too well the pride of men, and the terrible cost that comes with ...

Poet Ruth Padel reflects on the German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her youngest ... The final memorial, entitled The Grieving Parents, was finally completed in 1932 and placed in the ...