Karl Liebknecht
1871–1919
The only deputy to vote against war credits in 1914
Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde, Berlin
In memory of
Käthe Kollwitz
Artist of grief and the poor
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 77 years
- Resting place
- Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde, Berlin, Germany
Kollwitz drew and carved weavers, workers and above all mourning mothers. Her younger son Peter was killed in Flanders in 1914, eighteen years old; she spent the next eighteen years making the memorial "The Grieving Parents" for his war cemetery.
The Nazis forced her out of the Prussian Academy and forbade her to exhibit. She died two weeks before the war in Europe ended. An enlargement of her sculpture "Mother with her Dead Son" now stands in the Neue Wache in Berlin.
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