Cleveland Museum of Art

Self-Portrait with Hat and Coat

Lovis Corinth

Date

1915

Medium

oil on canvas

Culture

Germany, 20th century

Department

Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

After suffering a near-fatal stroke in 1911, Corinth often turned to painting his own image to reveal insight into his emotions. This candid, expressive painting is one of his finest self-portraits from the last decade of his life. His powerful, spontaneous style influenced the development of modernist painting in Germany. From 1915 to 1925, he served as president of the Berlin Secession, a group formed in opposition against state-sponsored art and which organized its own independent exhibitions.

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