Käthe Kollwitz
Blind People
1922/23
Charcoal
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne
In the production of Oedipus Rex, Kollwitz was particularly impressed by the choreography of the masses of people surging in violent emotional turmoil. She wrote in her diary:
“The people, after hearing of Jocasta’s death, are thrown back and forth at the palace like roaring surf. The maelstrom.” Käthe Kollwitz’s depictions of the people suffering under the war seem to have been inspired by these visual impressions.