National Gallery of Art – Kathe Kollwitz -Woman and Death, 1910

This powerful piece by Kathe Kollwitz, with its historical overtones, represents many themes, such as the demands of motherhood, and the threat of age and mortality. This female figure has the power of that era of the female form. and few artists throughout history have depicted the plight of impoverished workers, social revolution, and the ravages of war as passionately as she has in her major bodies of work.