Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis)
Käthe Kollwitz
1934
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
image: 20.64 × 18.42 cm (8 1/8 × 7 1/4 in.) sheet: 37.94 × 27.31 cm (14 15/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5280
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...