Woodcut

This work is by artist, Kathe Kollwitz. The medium used is woodcut.  Woodcut is a process done, by an artist carving a wooden block, cutting away the pieces that they do not want to print.  The design looks raised. Many of Kollwitz works show a sad woman, or mother and child. He works are sad and dark. The artist lost her son in the beginning of World War I.  This may be the way the artist was feeling while she was mourning her son.