Käthe Kollwitz (Kaliningrad 1867 – 1945 Moritzburg). ”Die Klage (Selbstbildnis)”. 1938/40 Bronze relief with brown patina. 26 × 24,5 × 10 cm (10 ¼ × 9 ⅝ × 3 ⅞ in.). On the left short side signed: KOLLWITZ. On the underside the foundry mark: H.NOACK BERLIN. Seeler 38.– Posthumous cast. [3237] Provenance: The heirs of Käthe Kollwitz, Berlin / Private Collection, Nordrhein Westfalen (acquired 1973 at Galerie Alex Vömel, Dusseldorf) / Private Collection, Hesse (acquired 1996 at Grisebach, Berlin) Literature and illustration: Auction 51: Kunst des 19. And 20. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Villa Grisebach, 8.6.1996, cat. no. 298, w. ill. The work entstand in memory of the 1938 deceased Ernst Barlach