Auction 517 Day Sale, Modern, Post War & Contemporary
Jun 6, 2024
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany

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LOT 119:

Käthe Kollwitz: Selbstbildnis

Sold for: €12,000
Start price:
12,000
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€15,000 - €20,000
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Auction took place on Jun 6, 2024 at VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Käthe Kollwitz: Selbstbildnis
KOLLWITZ, KÄTHE
1867 Königsberg - 1945 Moritzburg

Title: Selbstbildnis.
Date: 1926-1936 (model).
Technique: Bronze, brown patinated.
Measurement: 36 x 23 x 29cm.
Notation: Signed on the base of the left back side of the neck: Kollwitz.
Foundry Mark: Beside it foundry mark: H. NOACK BERLIN.

Dr. Annette Seeler, author of the catalogue raisonné of the sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz, considers the present copy of the "Selbstbildnis" of the artist to be an authorised posthumous cast from the 1970s-1980s according to the present state of knowledge.

Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature:
- Seeler, Annette: Käthe Kollwitz - Die Plastik. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2016, cat. rais. no. 26
- Seeler, Annette: Käthe Kollwitz - Die Plastik. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2016, cat. rais. no. 26, complementing online catalogue (state: January 2019), accesible on the website of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne.

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Explanations to the Catalogue

Käthe Kollwitz
Germany
Berlin Secession
Modern Art
Sculptures
1920s
Portrait
Sculpture
Bronze
Head