Ernst Barlach
The Couple in Conversation, sheet 3 (top left)
Appearance in the Fog, sheet 24 (top right)
The Caller, sheet 22 (bottom left)
Call in the Fog, sheet 23 (bottom right)
Lithographs from the series The Dead Day
Ernst Barlach Haus – Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Hamburg
In December 1913, Käthe Kollwitz wrote in her diary:
“Read Barlach’s ‘Toten Tag’ (Dead Day) and was deeply moved by it. […] What grips me is the mother and her son. How he then wriggles free from her and calls for his father. And yet cannot reach God in all the fog. And returns to his mother’s side.”
In 1916, the artist also viewed the lithographs of Ernst Barlach (1870–1938) in an exhibition. Unlike with the drama Die echten Sedemunds, it is unclear whether she also attended the performance of the play at the Neues Volkstheater in 1923.