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German painter, printmaker and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz will be the subject of art historian Rebecca Albiani’s Vashon Allied Arts’ Art History Talks lecture set for 1 p.m. Thursday at the Vashon High School theater.

Recognized as a major graphic artist of the modern era, Kollwitz used the mediums of drawing, etching, woodcuts and lithography. She focused her artwork primarily on drawing and printmaking as a means of reaching the widest possible audience.

Albiani said that Kollwitz’s husband was a physician in a working-class quarter of Berlin and that the aritist “wanted to heal souls just as her husband healed bodies.”

Inspired by politically-motivated prints from earlier artists, Kollwitz’s work depicts subjects related to the tragedies of war, poverty, hunger and social justice. Albiani said that after World War I, the artist focused her work on the “service of pacifism in the hope that art could eventually prevail over war.”

Tickets are available at the Blue Heron and vashonalliedarts.org.