Self-Portrait Facing Forward

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Self-Portrait Facing Forward

Alternate Title: Selbstbildnis en face

Germany, 1934
Drawings
Charcoal on paper
Image: 13 7/8 × 10 1/4 in. (35.24 × 26.04 cm) Frame: 30 1/2 × 24 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (77.47 × 62.55 × 4.45 cm)
Los Angeles County Fund (69.1)
Prints and Drawings
Not currently on public view

Label

Käthe Kollwitz depicted her own face repeatedly throughout her life; in total, she drew or printed more than one hundred self-portraits and sculpted one bust....
Käthe Kollwitz depicted her own face repeatedly throughout her life; in total, she drew or printed more than one hundred self-portraits and sculpted one bust. Her portraits are never idealized; the works record the physical transformations of time in a matter-of-fact way and exhibit her considerable skill in graphic media. When the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, the year before this drawing was made, Kollwitz was expelled from the Academy of Fine Arts and forbidden from teaching.

Exhibition Label: The Expressive Gaze: Portraits and Self-Portraits, 2022, Erin Maynes
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Bibliography

  • Harris, Ann Sutherland and Linda Nochlin.  Women Artists: 1550-1950.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.

  • Barron, Stephanie. German Expressionist Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983.

    View this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

  • Harris, Ann Sutherland and Linda Nochlin.  Women Artists: 1550-1950.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.

  • Barron, Stephanie. German Expressionist Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983.

    View this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

  • Davis, Bruce. Master Drawings in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Stevens, Matthew, ed. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York : Distributed by Hudson Hills Press, 1997.
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  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
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