Käthe Kollwitz
Self-Portrait Facing Forward1934

Not on view

Charcoal drawing on cream paper, close-up head-and-shoulders portrait of an older woman facing forward, with deep shadows and bold, blended strokes, signed and dated 1934

Artist or Maker: Käthe Kollwitz
Title: Self-Portrait Facing Forward
Place Made: Germany
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)
Credit Line: Los Angeles County Fund
Accession Number: 69.1
Classification: Drawings
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: Barron, Stephanie. German Expressionist Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983.
Harris, Ann Sutherland and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists: 1550-1950. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
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.
Copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Käthe Kollwitz
Self-Portrait Facing Forward1934

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Käthe Kollwitz
Title: Self-Portrait Facing Forward
Place Made: Germany
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)
Credit Line: Los Angeles County Fund
Accession Number: 69.1
Classification: Drawings
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: Barron, Stephanie. German Expressionist Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983.
Harris, Ann Sutherland and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists: 1550-1950. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
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.