Self-Portrait of Left Profile, Drawing (Selbstbildnis im Profil nachs links, zeichnend),
Käthe Kollwitz
1933
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charcoal on brown laid Ingres paper
Dimensions
sheet: 47.7 x 63.5 cm (18 3/4 x 25 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5217
About the Artist
Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was a German artist whose powerful images of poverty, war, and maternal grief established her as the foremost practitioner of socially engaged art in early 20th-century Europe. Working primarily in printmaking—including etching, lithography, and woodcut—as well as drawing and sculpture, Kollwitz created works of raw emotional power that gave voice to the suffering of wor...