Kathe Schmidt was born the daughter of a well to do mason in an East Prussian town called Konigsberg. Her parents were

The death of her son added more fuel to her socialist and pacifist political sympathies. The theme of War became a huge area of concern for Kathe. Her artistic contribution to war inspired art was different than most. Rather than show the brutalities of warfare itself, Kollwitz would portray the emotional responses of the civilians affected by the war. Some of her more famous works regarding this theme is that of "The Widow I, The Mothers, and The Volunteers." Her passion in her later years was in making art that she hoped would help put an end to all wars. This was a cause that she knew would never be realized but she was still successful in bringing a humanistic view to the tragedies of war. (Getlein)

a very important influence on her strong socialist beliefs and her study of art. She began taking art lessons when she was fourteen and at the age of seventeen she attended the Berlin School of Art, and later began studying art in Munich. In 1891, Kathe Schmidt married Dr Karl Kollwitz, who was equally influential and encouraging of Kathe's career. The couple moved to Berlin, in one of the poorest sections of the city, and set up a joint doctor's office and artist's studio that they worked in for over fifty years. (www.mystudios.com)

Living in a working class section of Berlin, Kollwitz received a first hand view of the hardships suffered by the working class. She would meet

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