Kathe Kollwitz

was a German sculpture, printmaker and painter. She was born in 1867 and past away in 1945. Her work is really dark and haunting, for some reason she has always fascinated me. I love this etching:

http://www.takver.com/art/kollwitz2007.htm

Its called Death and Woman (1910).

Some of her woodcuts:

http://www.oakton.edu/museum/Jacobs.html

http://www.oakton.edu/museum/Jacobs.html

This one above is called Hunger.

http://artblog.net/?name=2006-10-11-11-06-kollwitz

http://www.greatwar.nl/kollwitz/kollwitzwidowii.html