(Königsberg 1867–1945 Moritzburg) Lament, 1938–40, probably cast after 1959, bronze with dark patina, signed Kollwitz, with foundry mark of H. Noack Berlin, height 26.6 cm, (PP)

We are grateful to Ms Annette Seeler, Berlin, who is currently working on the first catalogue raisonné of the sculpture of Käthe Kollwitz for the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne, for her kind assistance.

Provenance: Private Collection, Germany (for approx. the last 30 years)

Exhibition: incl. Cologne 1984, Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle, Skulptur des Expressionismus, cat. no. 88 with ill. (another copy);
Hannover 1990, Wilhelm Busch Museum, Käthe Kollwitz. Druckgraphik, Handzeichnungen, Plastik, ill. p. 62 (reversed); Berlin 2005, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Hommage an/Homage to Käthe Kollwitz, pp. 134/135 with colour ill. (another copy);
Berlin 2011, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Käthe Kollwitz. Bildhauerin aus Leidenschaft. Das plastische Werk, colour ill. p. 94 (another copy)

Literature: Käthe Kollwitz. Das plastische Werk, ed. Hans Kollwitz, with a foreword by Leopold Reidemeister, Hamburg 1967, with ill.;
Käthe Kollwitz. Zeichnung, Grafik, Plastik, catalogue of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin, ed. by Annette Seeler, Berlin 1999, cat. no. 171 with colour ill. p. 357 (another copy)