Bread!

Käthe Kollwitz captured the desperation in a malnourished child’s sunken eyes as she pleads with her mother for help. Another child begging for food pulls at the woman’s dress. More than 900,000 German civilians died of starvation during World War I due to the British naval blockade. Food shortages continued during the currency crisis that followed the war’s end. Kollwitz made prints like this one to bring attention to the issue of hunger. A committed pacifist, she wrote “Every war is answered by a new war, until everything is smashed.”