Käthe Kollwitz also trained her artistic skills again and again by studying the human body. She found a strong concentration of expression in the timeless nakedness of the figures, as in the haggard Pregnant woman or the despairing Woman with dead child.
The naked human being also formed the starting point for her sculptural work. Since 1904 she was occupied with three-dimensional works, but only in 1916 she presented a sculpture in public for the first time: the Love couple.
