Selbstbildnis (Self-Portrait) from Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
Käthe Kollwitz
1920
Medium
lithograph from a bound volume with 15 lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight photomechanical reproductions, and one drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert M. Walker
Accession Number
1980.26.2.4
About the Artist
Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was a German artist whose powerful images of poverty, war, and maternal grief established her as the foremost practitioner of socially engaged art in early 20th-century Europe. Working primarily in printmaking—including etching, lithography, and woodcut—as well as drawing and sculpture, Kollwitz created works of raw emotional power that gave voice to the suffering of wor...