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Käthe Kollwitz, Selbstbildnis, 1926–1936 Design, 1936–1939 cast, Bronze on shell limestone base (Jura marble)© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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Selbstbildnis

Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945) · 1926–1936 Design, 1936–1939 cast

CHF 100,000 hammer

≈ $125,030≈ £92,526≈ €107,000

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Medium
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As published: “Bronze on shell limestone base (Jura marble)”
Category
Sculpture
Dimensions
Ca. 36.9 x 23.3X29.7 cm, bronze; ca. 10.2 x 19.8X19.5 cm, base
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 287: Art of the 19th to 21st Centuries - Live Auction (287)
Date
September 11, 2025
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
366
Estimate
CHF 40,000 – — (≈ $50,012) (≈ £37,010) (≈ €42,800)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (3)
  • Cast by the master art founder Willy Geisler, Berlin, before 1939 for
  • Collection Erich Cohn, New York, acquired there in the early 1960s by
  • The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern
Exhibitions (3)
  • Boston 1939, The Institute of Modern Art, Contemporary German Art, cat. no. 60
  • Davos 1998/1999, Kirchner Museum, Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 23
  • Cologne 2016, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Gussgeschichte(n), Das plastische Werk von Käthe Kollwitz in Gips, Stucco, Bronze und Zink, cat. no. 26, Ex. I.B.2
Literature (6)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Annette Seeler, Käthe Kollwitz, Die Plastik, Werkverzeichnis, Cologne 2016 and WVZ Online-Publikation, (as of January 2019), no. 26, Ex. I.B.2, The copy mentioned there
  • Boston Post, 5 November 1939, "Contemporary German Art"
  • Herbert Bittner, Kaethe Kollwitz, Drawings, New York/London 1959, cat. A
  • France Roussillon, La sculpture de Käthe Kollwitz, Thèse de doctorat, Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, 1983, no. 13
  • Werner Timm, Käthe Kollwitz, Das plastische Werk 1909-1943, Versuch einer Rekonstruktion, Stuttgart 1990, no. 30
  • Jutta Bohnke-Kollwitz (ed.), Käthe Kollwitz, Briefe an den Sohn 1904 bis 1945, Berlin 1992

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