Kollwitz (1867-1945) was a prominent print artist whose work was a very real portrayal of human suffering. She lost her youngest son in World War I, which precipitated a severe and long lasting depression. Her work for 17 years after that was in memorium to him. Kollwitz was a socialist pacifist, and held a faculty position at the Academy of Arts, which she was forced to resign from by the Nazi party in 1933. She also was banned from showing her artwork. After evacuating Berlin in 1943 to Dresden, she later passed away in 1945, just before the end of World War II.
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