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Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with dead child, 1903 Line etching, drypoint, emery and vernis mou with print on ribbed laid paper and Ziegler transfer paper I saw an exhibition of Käthe Kollwitz's artwork in Berlin and it made me so emotional. She lost her own child in the war and when I read the letters they exchanged before his death, I had to fight my tears. Kollwitz depicts a mother in despair, clutching her lifeless child to her chest. The contrast between the delicate features of the child and the

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