Käthe Kollwitz is one of my favourite artists and when I found out she had a museum dedicated to her I was really pleased. It included paintings, drawings and sculpture. Her work was full of emotion and she is by far the only artist who has stirred me as much as she did. You could really feel her pain and sorrow. Her son was killed in the first world war at 18 and she never got over it. Families crying and dying of hunger are shown in her work. Being a Jew, she was made to hide during the second world war. It was a very moving experience seeing her work.
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