Selbstbildnis 1919 (Self-Portrait 1919)
1919
Medium
lithograph in black
Dimensions
plate: 39.6 x 25.4 cm (15 9/16 x 10 in.) sheet: 50 x 32.5 cm (19 11/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.268
Art Historical Context
**Selbstbildnis 1919 (Self-Portrait 1919 by Lovis Corinth captures the artist in his late years through the intimate medium of black lithograph. Created in 1919, this measures 39.6 x 25.4 cm on the plate, with a larger sheet of 50 x 32.5 cm. Corinth, a leading German painter and printmaker, was renowned for his bold, expressive style that bridged Impressionism and Expressionism. By this time, he had suffered a stroke in 1911, and his self-portraits often reflected a raw vulnerability, confronting age, illness, and mortality with unflinching honesty. Lithography, a planographic printing techni...
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...