Friday is excursion day for our program. Todays excursion was to the Kathe Kollowitz Museum in Charlottenberg, which is a museum dedicated to the life and works of the woman whose name it bears. The museum itself was interesting, but rather depressing. Kathe Kollowitz was an artist that basically lived from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, seeing the uniformation of Germany, the rise of the Kaiserreich as well as both world wars. Before the first world war, she had a strong socio-political theme in her artwork, focussing on the plight of factory workers, homeless, and children. One of her two sons died in the First World War, which, understandably, profoundly affected her. Most of her post war work is about the horrors of war and death, especially from the perspective of mothers
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