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Käthe Kollwitz
Self-Portrait1934

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Lithograph portrait of an older person's face in extreme close-up, rendered in bold black crayon strokes with deep shadows and heavy contrasts, handwritten inscription below

Käthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait, 1934, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Käthe Kollwitz
Title
Self-Portrait
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1934
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 8 1/4 x 7 7/16 in. (20.96 x 18.89 cm); Sheet: 14 15/16 x 10 11/16 in. (37.94 x 27.15 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.183
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
  • Klipstein, August. Käthe Kollwitz : Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes. Bern : Klipstein, 1955.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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