- Title
- Self-Portrait Facing Forward
- Date Made
- 1934
- Medium
- Charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- 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)
- Accession Number
- 69.1
- Collecting Area
- Prints and Drawings
- Curatorial Notes
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
- Selected Bibliography
- 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.
