Self-Portrait, turned slightly to the left
Käthe Kollwitz German
Not on view
Throughout her career as a draftsman and printmaker, Kollwitz created arresting self-portraits. In this early work, she economically rendered her stark features with horizontal strokes of pen and ink and indicated areas of light and shade by loading her pen with darker and lighter solutions of black ink. At the upper right corner are the small pen marks she made to test the ink before applying it. Her dramatic use of shadow and ambiguous expression recall Rembrandt's etched self-portraits while prefiguring the later bold, melancholy prints for which she is best known.
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