Kollwitz relief evoked scenes of Allied bombing raids

In the midst of the Second World War, the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) produced a series of small sculptural reliefs on the theme of mothers protecting their children.

Having lost her younger son Peter in combat in 1914, she embraced pacifism and began to adopt subj…

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