Self-Portrait as a Young Woman, c. 1900

Not on View

Medium

pastel on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 46.8 x 36.5 cm (18 7/16 x 14 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert and Chris Petteys

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagel 1972, no. 166

Accession Number

1995.56.1

Artists / Makers

Käthe Kollwitz (artist) German, 1867 - 1945

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Inscription

lower right in black chalk or pastel: Kollwitz

Provenance

Probably Ernst Heinrich, prince of Saxony; (C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); Robert and Chris Petteys, Sterling, Colorado, acquired 1982; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Heinrich, Prince of Saxony, Ernst
Petteys, Chris, Ms.
Petteys, Chris, Ms.

Exhibition History

1992: Käthe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992, no. 33, as Self-Portrait in Profile Facing Right.

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 118, as Self-Portrait.

2001: A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 1.

2019: The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1972: Nagel, Otto. The Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne; Crown Publishers, 1972.

1982: Petteys, Chris. Dictionary of Women Artists, an international dictionary of women artists born before 1900. Boston, 1982: repro. as frontispiece.

1988: Fecht, Tom. Käthe Kollwitz: Das Farbige Werk. West Berlin, 1987: no. 11, repro. 7 (2nd ed. translated. by A.S. Wensinger and R.H. Wood, New York, 1988: no. 11, repro. 7 and cover).

1993: Timm, Werner. Käthe Kollwitz, Meisterwerke. Munich, 1993: no. 12, repro. section 1.

1994: Woman's Art Journal 15/1 (1994): repro. cover.

2001: A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 1.

2010: Kunz , Armin. “German Drawings, Washington.” Review of German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1580-1900.” In The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1,291 (October 2010): 702.