'Grieving Parents' statues wend way across Europe for war dead


  • World
  • Sunday, 29 Jun 2014

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German Expressionist sculptor Kaethe Kollwitz, whose work was so anti-war the Nazis banned it, laboured for 15 years to express in stone her grief at losing her 18-year-old son Peter at the start of World War One.

"Grieving Parents," the set of statues she finally placed at his grave in Flanders in 1932, has now inspired a memorial tour from Belgium to Russia that Germany has organised to honour the dead of that conflict and the Second World War that followed it.

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