Käthe Kollwitz
Seated Woman Covering Her Face with Her Right Hand
circa 1893
Charcoal and pen in black ink on drawing paper
Private collection
While the ink drawing, probably created in Munich, only hints at the Gretchen motif, the reference to Goethe’s Faust tragedy is more evident in this drawing. It prepares the ground for the etching “An der Kirchenmauer” (At the Church Wall), in which a niche in the masonry and the long robe of a female statue can be seen above the seated woman.