Suffering Humanity
From book "My First Ninety Years"
Berlin, 1919
reddish coloured plaster, the first original cast after the clay model; frame: Fahnkow Berlin, ca 1930
mahagony
85 x 26 cm
MGZ 4749
Personification of the cursed, the exiled and the penalised. Post-war Expressionism in paroxysm. The Zagreb relief can be considered a preparatory model for the great wooden relief, signed and dated, today in the Leopold-Hoech Museum in Düren.
Copyright Ernst Barlach Lizenzverwaltung Ratzeburg.
Literature: Šterk, Slavko. Tilla Durieux and Her Art Collection in Zagreb. Zagreb: Zagreb City Museum, 1986, p. 44