Lot 528
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Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)
Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)
Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)
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Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)

Turm der Mütter

Details
Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)
Turm der Mütter
signed and stamped with foundry mark 'Kollwitz H. NOACK BERLIN' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 11 ¼ in. (28.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1937-1938; this bronze version cast circa 1959
Provenance
Galerie Vömel, Dusseldorf.
Anon. sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 20 May 1960, lot 325.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
Literature
P. Fechter, Käthe Kollwitz, Plastiken, Berlin, 1947 (another cast illustrated).
A. Heilborn, Käthe Kollwitz, Berlin, 1949 (another cast illustrated).
H. Isenstein, Käthe Kollwitz, Copenhagen, 1949, p. 63 (another cast illustrated; titled Soldaterhustruer).
G. Strauss, Käthe Kollwitz, Dresden, 1950, p. 167 (other casts illustrated, pp. 156-157).
F. Roussillon, La sculpture de Käthe Kollwitz, Ph.D. Diss, Université de Paris Sorbonne IV, 1983, pp. 123-128, no. 18.
M. Potter et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: European Works of Art, New York, 1984, vol. I, pp. 329-330, no. 147 (illustrated).
A. Seeler, Käthe Kollwitz, Die Plastik Werkverzeichnis, Cologne, 2016, pp. 326-337, no. 35 (another cast illustrated in color, pp. 327 and 333; details of another cast illustrated in color, pp. 238, 331 and 336).
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Lot Essay

Dr. Annette Seeler, Berlin, author of the recently published catalogue raisonné of Kollwitz' sculptures, has confirmed from photographs and other significant material that this bronze is an authorized posthumous cast.

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