Minneapolis Institute of Art
Self-Portrait
Lovis CorinthLinkedCulture matchlcp-67eb8f609e6f
- Date
- April 19, 1923
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on cream wove Japanese paper
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 123447
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
Lovis Corinth advocated for an aggressive, intensely competitive approach to life, going so far as to offer this advice: “Use all your might to achieve your highest goal. . . . use your greater strength to push your rivals against the wall until they can no longer gasp.” Then, in 1911, Corinth had a stroke and suddenly found his physical powers greatly diminished. After that he made many self-portraits, showing his own frailty with unflinching honesty. When an artist requested a photograph of Corinth, presumably to make a caricature for a satirical magazine, Corinth instead sent him this drawing. Was he sardonically presenting his own features to suggest that nature had already perpetrated the distortions of a caricaturist? Germany, Europe
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- Credit line
- Gift of Elizabeth, Julie, and Catherine Andrus in memory of John and Marion Andrus
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