Die Trauernde / Die Klage. 1938/1940.
Bronze with red-brown patina.
Seeler 38 II B. Timm 59 . Left side with cast name. Right side with foundry mark "H.NOACK BERLIN" in two parts. 26.7 x 24.5 x 9 cm (10.5 x 9.6 x 3.5 in).
Authorized posthumous cast after model II (Seeler 38 II.A.) from the time between 1961 and 1974. In 1960/161this model was formed on the bronze in possession of Hans Kollwitz (Seeler 38 I.B.3); today in possession of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne. The original model I (Seeler 38 I.A.), in use since 1945, was not in existence any longer at this point.

We are grateful to Dr. Annette Seeler, author of the catalog raisonné of sculptures published by the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne, for her kind expert advice.