Selbstporträt (Self Portrait)

1947

Carl-Heinz Kliemann

Associated Names
Carl-Heinz Kliemann

Artist, German, born 1924

The image depicts a close-up of a person's face and neck in high-contrast black and white style. The person is facing forward with their head slightly tilted, featuring bold, angular lines highlighting their eyes, nose, and mouth with deep shadows. The hair is dark and styled to the side. They are wearing a shirt with a visible collar. The background is abstract with black areas framing the face.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in black on white Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 36.4 × 24.1 cm (14 5/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 47.2 × 33.3 cm (18 9/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.317

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roters 1976, Vol. (H), no. 16, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Glöckner, Cologne); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 30, 1988; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1976

  • Roters, Eberhard. Die Graphik von Carl-Heinz Kliemann, 1946-1975. Stuttgart: Cantz Verlag, 1976: no. (H) 16, only

Inscriptions

below image, at left, in graphite: Handdruck; below image, at center, in graphite: Selbstporträt; below image, at right, in graphite: C. H. Kliemann 47; at bottom right of the sheet, in graphite, by later hand: 1947 Roters H16

Wikidata ID

Q76556608

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