Die Klage. 1938 /1941.
Bronze with red-brown patina.
Seeler 38 II B. Timm 59 . Left side with cast name. Underside with foundry mark "H.NOACK BERLIN". 26.7 x 25.5 x 9.5 cm (10.5 x 10 x 3.7 in).
Authorized posthumous cast after model II (Seeler 38 II.A.) from between 1961-1974.
In 1960/61 this model II was made after the bronze in the inventory of Hans Kollwitz (Seeler 38 I.B.3); today in the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne. The original model I that had ben in use since 1945 (Seeler 38 I.A.) was not usable at that point and is inexistent today.

PROVENANCE: Kunstgalerie Esslingen.
Privatsammlung Norddeutschland (1973 direkt beim Vorgenannten erworben).

EXHIBITION: Käthe Kollwitz, Kunstgalerie Esslingen, Januar-Februar 1973, Nr. 1.