Self-Portrait in Profile Facing Right (Selbstbildnis in Profil nach Rechts)

1938

Käthe Kollwitz

Associated Names
Käthe Kollwitz

Artist, German, 1867 - 1945

The image shows a person's upper three-quarters body in profile, facing right with their head slightly tilted downward. The person's facial features are drawn with soft lines and shading, including a prominent nose and closed mouth, with their hair pulled back to reveal their forehead. They wear a dark, textured cloak or garment draping over their shoulders and back. The background is a light, empty space contrasting with the dark figure. The image is in a monochromatic palette, with shading techniques indicating texture and depth.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 58.1 x 48 cm (22 7/8 x 18 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.302

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Klipstein 1955, no. 265, State ii/iiib

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1966

  • Prints 1800-1945, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; and Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1966, no. 116.

1992

  • Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 101, reproduced p. 75.

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

lower right in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Selbstbildnis; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 400-

Wikidata ID

Q65080413

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