The 2nd artist that I have always very interested in is Kathe Kollwitz. She's married to a doctor and they both lived in Berlin to help with the sick and ill. Her life span brought her to suffer from WWI and WWII. She lost her son during WWI and lost her grandson during WWII. It is hard for me to imagine the pain she -in a personal level - has to go through, and to see others go through. She lived in the country whom was one of the "axis of evil" during WWII...The artworks that she created brought the story from the flip side of the same coin, I guess the innocents suffer doesn't matter where you live as long as you are involved with the war.
Most of her artworks show pain and suffering war has brought to the innocents... death, sick, poor, despair. Life is cruel; human beings are evil. What I am most impressed with is that only from looking at shapes, line contours, BW Kathe's printmaking work, I can sense the greatest sadness she wanted us to know and understand and feel.
Kathe's art make us aware; her art records history and also bring us pain.
http://www.dhm.de/museen/kollwitz/english/works.htm
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