Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.
Prussia is on the brink of national bankruptcy. King Frederick William III unexpectedly appoints the tax official Christian Rother as President of the Royal Prussian Maritime Trade.
