Thursday 22 June 2017

Kaethe Kollwitz - the sculptures



Kaethe Kollwitz, the sculptures, at the Kaethe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin.

This is a post about Kollwitz's sculptures and reliefs, following the one about her drawings and prints. Information about her life and oeuvre can be found in the previous post which you can see here


The first sculpture we saw, was one of Kollwitz, rather by her. A copy is situated in the middle of the Kaethe Kollwitz square in Prenzlauer Berg where she lived for 52 years, that you can see here




Gustav Seltz, Kaethe Kollwitz Memorial, 1958, (bronze)





Two Soldiers' Wives, Waiting, 1943, (bronze)






looking closer




from a different angle




Soldiers' Wives, Waving Goodbye, 1937-38, (bronze)




Mother with Two Children, 1932-36, (plaster coated with shellac)

This plaster could have been the artist's original version, from which moulds were manufactured and a (now lost) limestone version carved.






looking closer





from a different angle





from a different angle





Mother with Child Over her Shoulder, 1917, (bronze)






looking closer




Lovers, 1913, (bronze)







looking closer





Mother with Child in her Lap, 1911-15, (bronze)






looking closer





Self-Portrait, 1926-32, (bronze)





Mother Protecting her Child, 1941-42, (bronze)




Farewell, 1940-41, (bronze)




Funerary Relief, 'Rest in Peace in his Hands', 1935-36, (bronze)





Lament, 1938-40, (bronze)





Group of Children, 1937-38, (bronze)





Tower of Mothers, 1937-38, (bronze)








2 comments:

  1. Eirene, I found the bas reliefs that you show particularly powerful.

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    1. I agree, Olga, the bas reliefs are particularly good.

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