Selbstbildnis

Art Historical Context

Franz Barwig der Ältere’s “Selbstbildnis” (Self-Portrait) from 1927 offers an intimate glimpse into the artist’s world through a delicate ink drawing on paper. Measuring just 29 by 20.3 centimeters, the work’s modest scale invites close viewing, allowing the fine lines and tonal variations of Tusche (India ink) to reveal subtle details of expression and form. Created during the interwar years in Austria, the piece belongs to the Belvedere Collection in Vienna, where it forms part of the museum’s holdings of early twentieth-century Austrian drawings. As a self-portrait executed in ink, the wor...