Those who know the work of German graphic artist Kathe Kollwitz, a selection of which went on view at the National Gallery East Building yesterday, remember her as the unflaggingly grim chronicler of the human condition, of hollow-eyed mothers and emaciated children, of workers' uprisings and their harvest of death. Revered throughout her lifetime in Germany and the Soviet Union - but in the United States only after her death - Kollwitz's work has universally come to symbolize the human toll and deprivation of war.

Her anti-war stance and advocacy of the downtrodden were honed in the ...

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