Käthe Kollwitz
Young Couple
1893
Etching, aquatint, emery, and polished steel on vellum, reworked with opaque white
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
This early etching can only be indirectly linked to Max Halbes’ (1865–1944) romantic drama Jugend (Youth), which premiered in 1893. Käthe Kollwitz herself must have told this to the Berlin art historian Johannes Sievers (1880–1969), who published it in his 1913 catalogue raisonné of her graphic works.