Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis)
Käthe Kollwitz
c. 1919
Medium
transfer lithograph on Japanese paper
Dimensions
image: 34 × 30 cm (13 3/8 × 11 13/16 in.) sheet: 61.4 × 43.4 cm (24 3/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Anonymous
Accession Number
2020.164.3
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...