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Kathe Kollwitz, after her young son Peter was killed in 1914, made this sculpture of Grieving Parents. As some British schoolchildren wrote in letters on the graves of the German fallen, ‘we respect all the dead’ – for the anniversary of the slaughter of 10 million people, and the untold grief of their loved ones –
Ironic…this picture gets no comments….
Thanks for putting that up Scep…never seen those statues…very moving
thanks Ms K.
the two different statues bring out the different approaches of men and women to the death of the young man they had seen grow from being a child. The woman bent and broken in sorrow, the man rigid, face immobile to hide his suffering. Both have their hands crossed over their chests.
Kathe Kollwitz was a German Social Democrat who, along with most of her party but unlike her husband, supported the war at first – like so many in Europe she came to regard it as just one useless slaughterhouse. Her son, like so many young guys, danced his way to death in the patriotic euphoria of the start of the war.
Very moving in the way the statues depict the different reactions and ways of dealing with grief.
To all that died, RIP xx
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