Self-Portrait with Hand on Forehead (Selbstbildnis mit der Hand an der Stirn)

1910

Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

Otto Felsing

Printer, German, 1854 - 1920

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black-brown ink on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.5 x 13.6 cm (6 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 43.3 x 30.2 cm (17 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.5296

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Klipstein 1955, no. 106, State ii(a)/iv

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, circulated by the American Federation of Arts to 11 venues (California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Museum of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN; and Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN), 1950-1952, no cat.

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1955

  • Klipstein, August. The Graphic Work of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1955.

2002

  • Knesebeck, Alexandra von dem. Käthe Kollwitz. Werkverzeichnis der Graphik. 2 vols. Bern: Kornfeld, 2002.

Inscriptions

recto, lower left below image, in graphite: 37/50; lower right below image, signed, in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz; lower right sheet, in grahite, encircled: 50
verso, in black ink: illegible mark; stamp in black ink: LJR NGA

Wikidata ID

Q65022848

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