FS199300002000_000000_001, 0000/00/00撮影, Public Domain, CC0

Lovers Ⅱ

Title	Lovers Ⅱ
Artist	ケーテ・コルヴィッツ　Kathe KOLLWITZ
Date	1913 (cast ca. 1973)
Medium	bronze
Dimensions	71.0×47.0×49.0
Classification	Sculptures
Accession Number	FS199300002000
Summary	A young man is seated with his knees together, and his lover sits on his lap, her head in his hands and her cheek pressed to his face. Her body twists to meet his as she faces upward. Lovers I of 1911 (no longer extant) was obviously influenced by Rodin’s The Kiss, while we can also see how this second version of 1913 is formally close to Minne’s Grieving Mother with Two Children and to Lehmbruck’s works in terms of the pose and the figures’ thin forms. The expression of the unified form of figures buried in the indistinct mass between them is one of the unique qualities of Kollwitz’s work, as seen in Tower of Mothers (1937–38), with its image of mothers encircling their children to protect them. The emotive expression of the young man’s large hands can also be found in many of Kollwitz’s other prints and in the relief The Lamentation, which she created upon the death of Barlach. In this work, the woman’s left arm, which hangs down, and her rounded back make it appear that the woman is in fact dead, and the shoulder blades protruding from the young man’s back may be a further expression of his suffering and love for this woman.

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Native place	Königsberg, East Prussia [now Kalliningrad, RUS]
Birth	1867
Dead place	Moritzburg, DEU
Died	1945
Biography	Käthe Kollwitz was a printmaker and sculptor. She spent most of her life in the impoverished neighborhoods of northern Berlin, and her works are imbued with deep empathy for the poor and the oppressed. Driven by a deep sense of solidarity with the working class, she became closely associated with socialist movements. Although she began her career as a painter, she later turned to printmaking and produced her celebrated print series The Weavers' Revolt in 1898. From 1920 onward, she devoted herself primarily to woodcut printmaking, exploring the medium's powerful expressive potential. Although her range of subjects was relatively limited, her works possessed profound symbolic significance.

Lovers Ⅱ

Kathe KOLLWITZ