Self-Portrait by Käthe Kollwitz
Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

Käthe Kollwitz · 1891/92

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • 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.).
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York City, "Käthe Kollwitz", March 31 - July 20, 2024.

Literature

Published references

  • Pierre Descarques, "Gunnar W. Lundberg, 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.).

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