Katharine E. McBride Professor
Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

“Mask and Husk: Käthe Kollwitz’s Mourning Parents and Self-Portrait in Dialogue”

This comparative interpretation of Käthe Kollwitz’s sculptures Mourning Parents (1914-1932) and Self-Portrait (1926-1932) explores her strong, if conflicted, identity as a sculptor, when her fame and reputation as a socially engaged artist rested firmly on her graphic oeuvre.