Self-Portrait
Date
(1926-1932/cast c. 1946-1956)
Artist
Käthe Kollwitz, German, b. Konigsberg, 1867–1945
Provenance
Fine Arts Associates, New York, to 22 July 1958
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 22 July 1958-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History
FINE ARTS ASSOCIATES, New York. "Paintings, Watercolors, Sculpture," Summer-Fall 1958, no. 16.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 109, ill. p. 50. TOUR: MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September-11 October; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 25 October-6 December; WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 December-31 January 1960; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 1-27 March; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND ART, 11 April-15 May; M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, San Francisco, 29 May-10 July; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 24 July-4 September; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 219, ill. p. 51.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 436.
[HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Artists' Portrait from the Collection," 1979].
ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY, Buffalo, New York. "Modern European Sculpture, 1918-1945: Other Realities," 11 May-24 June 1979. TOUR: MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, Minnesota, 15 July-26 August 1979; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 5 October-18 November 1979.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART. "German Expressionist Sculpture," cat. no. 83, ill. pp. 139-140. TOUR: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, April-June 1984; KUNSTHALLE COLOGNE, 7 July-26 August. (Washington and Cologne shows only).
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Kathe Kollwitz," 3 May-16 August 1992, cat. no. 105, p. 172, ill. p. 176.
Published References
SALTMARCHE, KENNETH. "Notes on Special Exhibitions: 'Sculpture in Our Time'," Art Quarterly 22 (Winter, 1959), p. 351.
FRANKENSTEIN, ALFRED. "Monumental Serenity--And a Critic's Choice," San Francisco Sunday Chronicle (19 June 1960), This World, p. 18, ill.
UNSIGNED. "Sculpture in Our Time," News and Notes 4 (Art Gallery of Toronto, October 1960), p. 2.
MARCHIORI, GIUSEPPE. "La Scultura in Europa tra le due guerre," L'Arte Moderna 10/88 (Milan, 1967), ill. p. 275.
ARNASON, H. HARVARD. A History of Modern Art (New York: Abrams, 1968), no. 233, ill. pp. 134-135.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 708, ill. p. 311.
FINE, ELSA HONIG. Women and Art (Montclair, New Jersey and London: Allanheld & Schram/Prior, 1978), fig. 8-4, p. 155.
ELSEN, ALBERT E. Modern European Sculpture, 1918-1945 (New York: Braziller, 1979), fig. 123, p. 125.
SELZ, PETER. Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History, 1890-1980 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Harry N. Abrams, 1981), fig. 726, p. 278.
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School
German Expressionism
On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.2783
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
14 3/8 x 9 1/8 x 11 3/8 in. (36.5 x 23.1 x 28.7 cm)
