1919
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Selbstbildnis 1919 (Self-Portrait 1919) is a 1919 ink by Lovis Corinth, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a person’s head and shoulders turned slightly away. The face is blurred, with rough lines for the hair and clothes. The hands rest on a table, holding what looks like a piece of paper or a small book. The artist signed it in the corner, but the face is hard to read on purpose. This was made in 1919 using a printing method that presses ink onto stone. Next, check out lithography to see how this kind of drawing 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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