Ernst Stern
Figurine (costume design) for Faust as Plutus
1911
(Production of “Faust II” by Max Reinhardt at the Deutsche Theater Berlin, 1911)
Mixed media
Theater Studies Collection of the University of Cologne
On April 18, 1911, Käthe Kollwitz wrote to her son Hans about the performance, in which she was particularly impressed by the Mummenschanz scene in the first act with the procession of various groups of costumed people. Here, Faust appears in the costume of Plutus, the personification of wealth and mineral resources. The artist found: “The masked ball was splendid.”