Kauernder weiblicher akt (Crouching Female Nude)
1914
Medium
drypoint and aquatint in black
Dimensions
plate: 21.8 x 15.8 cm (8 9/16 x 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 39.5 x 29 cm (15 9/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. Toni G. Marcy
Accession Number
2000.105.3
Art Historical Context
Lovis Corinth's *Kauernder weib akt (Crouching Nude)*, created in 1914, captures the artist's late-career fascination with the human form through intimate, expressive printmaking. A leading figure in German Expressionism and a key member of the Berlinession, Corinth produced this drypoint and aquint just as World War I erupted, amid his own personal challenges following a stroke in 1911. His nudes often explored vulnerability and vitality, rendered here with a crouched figure that emphasizes dynamic tension and psychological depth. The medium—drypoint for its spontaneous, burr-rich lines and ...
About the Artist
Lovis Corinth · 1858–1925
Lovis Corinth, born Franz Heinrich Louis on July 21, 1858, in Tapiau, East Prussia (now Gvardeysk, Russia), to a tanner father, displayed prodigious drawing talent from childhood. He began formal training at the Königsberg Academy in 1876, then moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1880 to 1884, studying under Ludwig von Löfftz and briefly Franz von Defregger, where he absorbed a Realis...