This Wednesday sees the opening of a new exhibition featuring the work of German printmaker Käthe Kollwitz. Titled Life, Death and War, the show consists of 40 prints selected from the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart art museum. As alluded to in the show’s title, the exhbition features pieces from Kollowitz’s Death series (1934-37), her two war series: Peasant War (1902-08) and War (1921-22) as well as her two other major art cycles Revolt of the Weavers (1893-98) and Proletariat (1924-25). During the opening decades of the 20th Century, Kollwitz (1867-1945) established herself as one of the finest and highly regarded printers of the era, achieving this during a period…