Käthe Kollwitz Self-Portrait of Left Profile, Drawing (Selbstbildnis im Profil nachs links, zeichnend),

This horizontal drawing shows the head, chest, and one arm of a person in the act of drawing. Created with wide, soft black marks against sand-brown paper, the person faces our left in profile and raises their right hand, farther away from us, close to a diagonal line probably representing paper or another surface. Long hair is pulled back from a high forehead and the person has dark eyebrows, a prominent nose, high cheekbones, and their lips are pulled slightly down at the corners. A dark line between the thumb and forefinger of the raised hand represents the drawing material, held near the diagonal line. The face and hand are more detailed than the body, which is blocked in with vertical, zigzagging lines. The artist signed and dated the work in the lower right corner: “Kathe Kollwitz 1933.”