Self-portrait / Käthe Kollwitz
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.42
- Title
- Self-portrait
- Artist
- Käthe Kollwitz
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- 1867 - 1945
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1924
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Germany (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Germany (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Jean Paul Slusser
- Style/Group/Movement
- German Expressionism
- Inscription
- Signed in pencil, l.r.: Kathe Kollwitz/Selbst ------- 1924; stamped on verso: Printed in Germany
- Dimensions
- 55.3 cm x 38 cm (21 3/4 in. x 14 15/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Physical Description
- Three-quarter profile view of a woman’s face
- Subject Matter
- This is one of a number of moving and powerful self-portraits Kollwitz produced throughout her career. Greatly affected by the sadness she suffered in her personal life along with the poverty and misery that surrounded her in the aftermath of World War I, this work resonates with the grief and loss she suffered after the death of her son in the war, and reveals both a sense of quiet mourning and solemn resignation.
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- portraits
- self-portrait
- self-portraits
- woman
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 795 x 983
- File Size
- 101 KB
- Record
- 1983/2.42
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-2.42/1983_2.42.jpg
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"Self-portrait; Käthe Kollwitz." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-2.42/1983_2.42.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
