12 self-portraits of the young artist Ursula Dethleffs from 1948-1956
Selfies are snapshots - just press a button and the multi-media photo is ready. In contrast, the self-portrait drawing takes much longer. It may also, if it is art, what more important things about one's personality.
Already one of the first self-portrait as an eight-year-old is more than a simple children's picture. Only eight years separate this first, meek and the last self-critical image in color before her easel: The soft loveliness is over-come; the child in the image of the mother almost slips under the arm back by: Ursula's cool, critical expression showed even then their distance from family life with children. Ursula always remained at a distance, but her work as an artist later committed ..