1.  My initial reaction was intrigue.  With the look on her face I immediately started to wonder about what she was holding (which is a kaleidoscope by the way).  I like the balance of the red hues with the kaleidoscope, her hair, eye color, and the door in the background.

2.  The picture is of a girl with an round face, dark glasses, and long reddish auburn hair with bangs sweeping over the right side of her glasses.  She is staring intently as if transfixed at a half sphere shaped portion of a kaleidoscope.  This magic wand of color is decorated in a red metallic paper.  

3.  The focal point, the girl, is positioned at the far left of the picture with her eyes about a third of the way down to add emphasis to that point.  Then the tube/stick is on the right third of the picture slightly tipped towards the main focal point to draw the eye in that direction.  As I mentioned earlier, the main color in this picture is of a reddish tint.  

4.  Transfixed.

5.  The works of Kathe Kollwitz tend to lean towards the darker images and ideas.  She focuses on the pain and suffering of people detailing facial expressions thoroughly.  I don't see many similarities between her and I besides we both concentrate on expressions of the human face.  Mine deals with intrigue while hers is of great loss.  She does not use color in her pieces, she stays with black and white to enhance the mood while I, on the other hand, use the color of the baton to draw the viewer's eyes to the main focal point.