Käthe Kollwitzドイツ, 1867–1945Self-Portrait at a Table
作品について
Käthe Kollwitz is one of the most famous female artists of the early 20th century, best known for her socially engaged work and numerous, penetrating self-portraits. This one dates from the beginning of her career. Kollwitz depicted herself at a table, seated under a bright lamp. In this way she was able to work out the strong contrasts of light and dark in the etching.
アムステルダム国立美術館
作品データ
- 収蔵番号
- RP-P-2011-36-129
その頃、Käthe Kollwitzの人生では
生涯をすべて見る1891
Marries the physician Karl Kollwitz
She married Karl Kollwitz, a doctor who tended the poor of Berlin; the couple moved into a large apartment that remained her home until it was destroyed in the Second World War. Her husband’s nearby practice supplied motifs from the lives of workers, which, in her own words, she found beautiful.
1891年6月13日
Married: Karl Kollwitz
1892
Birth of her son Hans
In 1892 Käthe and Karl Kollwitz’s elder son, Hans, was born.
1892年5月14日
Son born: Hans Kollwitz
1892–1896
Hauptmann’s “The Weavers” inspires a new cycle
Between the births of her sons Hans and Peter she saw Gerhart Hauptmann’s play The Weavers, about the failed revolt of the Silesian weavers in Langenbielau in 1844. It inspired her to drop a series of etchings she had planned to illustrate Émile Zola’s Germinal and to produce a cycle on the weavers instead.
