Fritz Erler
Design for Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Scenes I.1 and I.4, 1909
Oil on canvas
Theater Studies Collection of the University of Cologne
It is unclear when Käthe Kollwitz saw the production of Hamlet that Max Reinhardt staged at the Deutsches Theater in 1909. In a letter to her son Hans in 1912, she mentions in passing that she found the actor Alexander Moissi (1879-1935) particularly good in the role of Hamlet.