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Käthe Kollwitz

Self Portrait, hand at forehead, ca. 1910, published 1918

Description

Maker

Title

Self Portrait, hand at forehead

Year

ca. 1910, published 1918

Medium

Etching and drypoint

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

15.2 x 13.7 cm (6 x 5 3/8 inches) (plate)

Identification

State

18/50. Kn. 109, state IIe

Type

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

2005.142.38

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A Process of Protest

July 28 - November 26, 2006

Kollwitz was 43 in 1910. In this self-portrait, like most of those after 1900, she concentrated on her face and hands, representing herself without indicating a setting. She was fascinated with the expressive qualities of hands throughout her life, having admired the works of Old Masters such as Albrecht Dürer, whose compositions of hands she studied at the Kupferstichkabinett (Cabinet of Prints and Drawings), Berlin. She wrote in her personal journal, “only the total attitude and the face and hands speak to me.” [Entry of October 15, 1919]

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