“Self-portrait,” 1934, lithograph.
This quote from Wikipedia expresses very well what about her work inspires and touches me:
“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.[1][2] Initially her work was grounded in Naturalism, and later took on Expressionistic qualities.”
"Woman with Dead Child" by Kathe Kollwitz, etching, 1903 National Gallery of Art,D.C.
Often disturbing, always inspiring, Kollwitz is on my list of top 10 artists.
Who or what inspires you?