Woman With Dead Child (Chap 27)

Woman with Dead Child by Kathe Kollwitz (1903)

When I first seen this portrait, I wanted to cry. This painting is very moving, and you can almost feel the woman's pain as she has lost her son during the war. The woman in the photo is Kathe Kollwitz. She lost her son during the first World War. She also lost her grandchild in WWII. Her whole life was surrounded by death, turmoil, and disaster. The colors that she used in this portrait give off the vibe that her life was not happy and wonderful. To lose a child is the most devastating thing you can go through, but loosing any loved one can be a hard thing to go through. You can feel her sorrow, and hurt, and seeing what she went through day by day, trying to make it during the hard times of the war.