Käthe Kollwitz
Kindergruppe
Presumably 1936/37
Bronze Height 18.6 cm Signed 'K. Kollwitz' on right side of cast-with plinth, foundry mark "NOACK BERLIN" on rear side of plinth. Posthumous cast, presumably from the second half of the 1960s. - Dark brown patina, partly slightly lightened. - In fine condition.
Catalogue Raisonné
Seeler 33; Seeler 33 (online catalogue raisonné)
Certificate
The bronze will be included in the next update of the online catalogue raisonné of the artist, according to present state of knowledge in section III.B. We would like to thank Annette Seeler, Berlin, for scientific advice.
Provenance
Collection Willy and Rut Brandt; since then in family possession, Berlin
Literature
I.a. Gerhard Strauss, Käthe Kollwitz, Dresden 1950, cat. no. 160 with illus. p. 167; Hans Kollwitz (ed.), Käthe Kollwitz. Das plastische Werk, Hamburg 1967, Abb. without no.; Alexandra von dem Knesebeck, "...mit liebevollen Blicken..:". Kinder im Werk von Käthe Kollwitz, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne, in: Einblicke 8. Eine Ausstellungsreihe im Rahmen der Dauerausstellung, Cologne 2007, p. 27
Exhibitions
I.a. Berlin 1951 (Deutsche Akademie der Künste), Käthe Kollwitz, p. 66, cat. no. 190; Krefeld 1957 (Museum Haus Lange), Käthe Kollwitz. Gedächtnisausstellung zum 90. Geburtstag, without p., Plastik no. 8; New York 1959/1960 (Galerie St. Etienne), Kaethe Kollwitz. Sculptures and Drawings, cat. no. 6; Berlin 2011 (Käthe Kollwitz Museum), Käthe Kollwitz. Bildhauerin aus Leidenschaft. Das plastische Werk, p. 25, illus. p. 76