Käthe Kollwitz – Pictures of a Life (1987)

Release Date: 1987-04-23
Runtime: 1h 36min
Production Company: DEFA-Studio f&uuml;r Spielfilme
Production Country: Germany, East Germany
Director: Ralf Kirsten

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.