About This Artwork

Käthe Kollwitz
German, 1867-1945

Self-Portrait, c. 1891/92

Black gouache, with brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache on brown wove paper
400 x 320 mm
Signed lower right corner in graphite: "Käthe Kollwitz"
Restricted gift of Margeret Day Blake, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Press, and Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund, 1980.361

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Berlin, Paul Cassirer, “Käthe Kollwitz,” April-May 1917, no. 3. [or possibly Nagel no. 28]
Berlin, Akademie der Kunst, "Käthe Kollwitz," December 10, 1967–January 7, 1968, p. 95 cat. 5 (frontispiece ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983," July 24–September 30, 1985, pp. 174–75, cat. 80 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the Saint Louis Art Museum, March 10–May 16, 1986.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Käthe Kollwitz," May 3–August 16, 1992, pp. 16, 18 and 138, cat. 5 (ill.), cat. by Elizabeth Prelinger.
Cologne, Germany, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, "Käthe Kollwitz: Meisterwerke der Zeichnung," April 20–June 18, 1995, pp. 17, 24, 48, and 237, cat. 54 (color ill.).

Publication History

Pierre Descarques, "Gunnar W. Lundgerb, Un Suedois Parisien," Connaissance des Arts 235 (September 1971), pp. 68 and 70 (ill).
Otto Nagel, Käthe Kollwitz: Die Handzeichnungen (Berlin, 1972), pp. 182–83, no. 32 (ill.).
Uwe Schneede, Käthe Kollwitz: Das Zeichnerische Werk (Munich, 1981), p. 12, pl. 2.
Renate Hinz (editor), Käthe Kollwitz: Graphics, Posters, Drawings, translated by Rita and Robert Kimber (New York, 1981), p. 3, pl. 1.
Eric Gibson, "Kollwitz: Socially Conscious Art that Works," The Washington Times (May 3, 1992),
p. 1 (ill.).
Werner Timm, Käthe Kollwitz: Meisterwerke (Munich, 1993), pl. 3 (and cover ill.).
Jay Clarke, book review, Art on Paper (January-February 2001), p. 99 (ill.).
Martin Fritsch (editor), Käthe Kollwitz: Selbstbildnisse/Self-Portraits (Berlin, 2007), pp. 42–43 (color ill.).

Ownership History

Gunnar W. Lundberg (1903–1986), Paris, by 1967–at least 1972 [Berlin 1967 exh. cat.; according to Nagel 1972]. Sold by Nancy Schwartz, New York, to Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich, 1980 [correspondence with Walter Feilchenfeldt, dated January 5, 2004]; sold to the Art Institute, 1980.