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Lovis Corinth

Self-Portrait

1920–21
Softground etching

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

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.

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