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Selbstbildnis en face
Item Code: KK-selfp-p-sp
Offset lithograph
Signed
Signed in plate
Cat Rais No
Knesebeck
Width (cm)
50
Height (cm)
70
Date of Work
1904
An offset lithographic poster designed for the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin reproducing a self-portrait from 1904 (Selbstbildnis en face translates to ‘Self-portrait, full face’). The original lithograph was printed in a dark brown ink with olive green tinting and was overworked with a black wash.
Käthe Kollwitz is regarded as one of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, and as a remarkable woman who created timeless art works against the backdrop of a life of great sorrow, hardship and heartache. Käthe was born in 1867 in Konigsberg, East Prussia (now Kalingrad in Russia). She studied art in Berlin and began producing etchings in 1880 In 1881 she married Dr Karl Kollwitz and they settled in a working class area of north Berlin.
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