German artist Käthe Kollwitz, a pacifist and socialist, d. 4/22/45. Few artists have been so committed to representing the private struggles and suffering of the poor, particularly the fierce power of maternal love, and the capacity for devastating loss (her own experience.)

She never recovered from the death of her son in WWI. “One day, a new idea will arise and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved.”

I love her. Was so grateful for the chance to visit her museum in Berlin and to see her sculptures in the WWI cemetery in Flanders where her son Peter is buried