1920
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Bäume mit Sonne (Trees in the Sun) is a 1920 ink by Lovis Corinth, held at National Gallery of Art.
This print shows tangled, spiky trees filling the whole picture, their branches crisscrossing wildly. The lines are thick and scratchy, almost like they were drawn with a sharp tool. The background is mostly empty except for a few wavy lines that might be ground or shadows. The artist used a technique where ink is scraped into a metal plate to create texture. This makes the lines look rough and uneven, like the trees themselves. Look up technique: drypoint next to see how this method works.
Lovis Corinth was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.
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