Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis)

1924 · Print

Can I see it?

Not on view at present

Where is “Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis)” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 12 days ago
In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
Source: The museum

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Details

Accession number: 1943.3.5283

What it shows

Self Woman Hand Portrait Face

In the catalog

Prints Woodcut Modernism 20th century American German Self-portrait

Sources

National Gallery of Art
Image: National Gallery of Art — © the artist or rights holder

In the life of Käthe Kollwitz

The whole life

1919–1925
Destroys the first monument and begins again
In 1919 she destroyed the monument to her son, and in 1925 she began again.
1924
Her work at the “First General Exhibition of German Art”
In 1924 her work was shown in Moscow at the “First General Exhibition of German Art”.
until 1926
Turns to the woodcut after Barlach
While working on the Liebknecht sheet she found etching insufficient for monumental ideas. After seeing Ernst Barlach’s woodcuts at the Secession exhibitions she finished the sheet in the new medium and by 1926 had made about thirty woodcuts.

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