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Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz, née Schmidt, was a German artist, who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger, and war on the working class. Despite the realism of her early works, her art is now more closely associated with Expressionism. Kollwitz was the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts. Read more from Wikipedia →

Works by this artist in other museums: the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.