"Self Portrait," Käthe Kollwitz, 1890.

Kollwitz studied at the Munich School for Women Artists, and gained some prominence thanks to her focus on women and the working class, especially depicting the effects of poverty, hunger, and war. She was the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts.

She stayed in Germany during WWII; while the Nazis disliked her works, they didn't destroy them and despite threats, never put her in a concentration camp, largely because by then she was internationally famous. She lost many drawings and works in the bombing of Berlin, and died herself just days before the German surrender.

The poise and confidence she radiates in this selfie (one of many) are amazing to me.

From the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

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"Self Portrait," Mimmi Zetterström. 1876.

Zetterström was a Swedish painter who journeyed to Paris to learn and work; there her depictions of Lapland and its people won attention. She also became a sort of den mother to Swedish artists in Paris, and helped them network and get their work shown.

The painting she's working on here is a real one by Zetterström, "Dalfolk." So we're not just getting treatment of an interior, but also a waggish work-within-a-work.

And I'm doing a theme this week, have you noticed?

From the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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Dripping

#blood #nosebleed #bleeding #bleed #transartist #queerartist #bloody #queercreator #transcreators #transcreator #trans #queer #horror #trans #queer #queercreators #creator #selfphotography #photography #amateurphotography #amateurphotographer #selfportaits #selfportrait #selfportraitphotography #vampire #blooddrinkers

60 years beyond #SylviaPlath.
From her self #poems, her #selfportaits, self choices.
From burning and from eating the air.

Ash, ash—
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there——

A cake of soap,   
A wedding ring,   
A gold filling.

Herr God, Herr Lucifer   
Beware
Beware.

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair   
And I eat men like air.

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