Käthe Kollwitz
Kneeling before an image of the Virgin Mary
circa 1893
Pen and ink, with brushwork samples in ink on the right, on sturdy vellum
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne
This pen-and-ink drawing, created around 1893, shows that Käthe Kollwitz drew on various well-known illustrations of Goethe’s Faust I when she first began working on the character of Gretchen.