The artist of the day is Kathe Kollwitz. Growing up in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she was heavily impacted by the works of Zola, and her pieces reflected the incredible poverty and social injustice of the political system and country. She was the first woman to be accepted to the Prussian Acedemy, and subsequently expelled for her ideas and art, which, after the Nazi's bombed her home, they labelled "degenerate". If you can find them, check out "The Weavers Revolution" lithograph series- or for that matter, any of her work. This is a self portrait, lithograph, circa 1900.
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