Lovis Corinth
Stage design for the Easter walk in Faust I
1922
(Production by Victor Barnowsky at the Lessingtheater Berlin, 1922)
Pastel
Theater Studies Collection of the University of Cologne
Behind the vaulted sky of the prologue, the setting for Faust and his assistant Wagner’s Easter walk outside the city gates can be seen.
In the Kollwitz family, it was part of the annual Easter ritual to read aloud from the text of Faust, Part I. It therefore seems plausible that the artist had seen more than one production of the play. In this case, her esteemed colleague Corinth was also involved in the production at the Lessingtheater.