Self-Portrait
1934
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 20.5 x 18.5 cm (8 1/16 x 7 5/16 in.) sheet: 37.7 x 27.1 cm (14 13/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1947.12.69
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...