Obituary describes an artist who "threw down the gauntlet to the 'official school of painting'" and "found himself at odds with the kind of painting favored by the former Kaiser Wilhelm" (pg 16)
The article recounts "her life, like her work, was an epic of struggle and courage;" "Kathe Kollwitz was beloved and honored by the common people as much as she was hated and feared and suppressed by the old imperial regime in Germany" (pg. 87)
