Self Portrait
Käthe Kollwitz (Königsberg 1867 - Moritzburg 1945)
Lot-No. 599
Designed 1926-1936, posthumous cast around 1970. Bronze, brown patinated; stepped marble base. H. 36 cm, base: H. 11 cm. On the left side of the neck at the base of the neck the name without Sütterlin-z: Kollwitz, foundry stamp: at the base of the neck at the back two-part stamp: H. NOACK BERLIN. The creation of the only three-dimensional self-portrait took years and shows how much the artist struggled with making a portrait of herself. It shows Kollwitz as a woman of about 60, unadorned, with all the signs of age. The artist appears tired, her gaze is directed inward, her facial features radiate calm and motionlessness, only the wrinkles on her forehead indicate her inner confrontation with current conflicts: the creation of the work model coincides with the time when Kollwitz was forced to resign from the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1933 and was removed from her post as head of the master class of graphic art; in 1936 she was virtually banned from exhibiting. - Literature: Cat. rais. Seeler 26 - Provenance: Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia - Graphic artist and sculptor, one of the most renowned German female artists of the 20th cent. She was trained the drawing school of the 'Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen' under K. Stauffer-Bern, under E. Neide in Königsberg as well as under L. von Herterich in Munich. She joined the Berlin secession. She is most famous for her graphic cycles on the misery of the working classes. In 1910 she also began sculpting. Mus.: Cologne (Kollwitz Mus.), Dresden, Berlin a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Klipstein: K.K. - Verzeichnis des Graphischen Werkes 1890-1912, Knesebeck: WVZ der Graphik, Seeler: WVZ der Plastik
Käthe Kollwitz: Self Portrait
Käthe Kollwitz (Königsberg 1867 - Moritzburg 1945)
Self Portrait
Lot-No. 599
Designed 1926-1936, posthumous cast around 1970. Bronze, brown patinated; stepped marble base. H. 36 cm, base: H. 11 cm. On the left side of the neck at the base of the neck the name without Sütterlin-z: Kollwitz, foundry stamp: at the base of the neck at the back two-part stamp: H. NOACK BERLIN. The creation of the only three-dimensional self-portrait took years and shows how much the artist struggled with making a portrait of herself. It shows Kollwitz as a woman of about 60, unadorned, with all the signs of age. The artist appears tired, her gaze is directed inward, her facial features radiate calm and motionlessness, only the wrinkles on her forehead indicate her inner confrontation with current conflicts: the creation of the work model coincides with the time when Kollwitz was forced to resign from the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1933 and was removed from her post as head of the master class of graphic art; in 1936 she was virtually banned from exhibiting. - Literature: Cat. rais. Seeler 26 - Provenance: Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia - Graphic artist and sculptor, one of the most renowned German female artists of the 20th cent. She was trained the drawing school of the 'Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen' under K. Stauffer-Bern, under E. Neide in Königsberg as well as under L. von Herterich in Munich. She joined the Berlin secession. She is most famous for her graphic cycles on the misery of the working classes. In 1910 she also began sculpting. Mus.: Cologne (Kollwitz Mus.), Dresden, Berlin a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Klipstein: K.K. - Verzeichnis des Graphischen Werkes 1890-1912, Knesebeck: WVZ der Graphik, Seeler: WVZ der Plastik
