Self-Portrait
Lovis Corinth
1920–1921
- Medium
- Softground etching
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 11.9 x 19.1 cm (4 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 33 x 24 cm (13 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
About
After suffering a stroke in 1911, the German artist Lovis Corinth made numerous self-portraits that exhibit a preoccupation with his own mortality. Corinth created a mood of tension and anxiety by portraying himself in heavy shadow, with eyes staring straight out at the viewer; his marks made in the soft etching ground manifest a nervous energy.
