Die Versuchung des heiligen Antonius (The Temptation of Saint Anthony)
1919
Medium
drypoint in black
Dimensions
plate: 24.1 x 30.3 cm (9 1/2 x 11 15/16 in.) sheet: 33.1 x 42.1 cm (13 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1947.7.28
Art Historical Context
Lovis Corinth's *Die Versuchung des heil Antonius (The Temptation of Saint Anthony)*, created in 1919, a timeless religious narrative through the lens of early 20th-century German Expressionism. The German artist, renowned for his bold evolution from Impressionism to raw, emotive forms after a debilitating stroke in 1911, depicts the desert hermit Saint Anthony besieged by demonic temptations—a motif popularized in art from Bosch to Flaubert's novel. Executed late in Corinth's career amid the turmoil of post-World War I Germany, the print reflects his intensified focus on psychological drama a...
About the Artist
Lovis Corinth · 1858–1925
Lovis Corinth, born Franz Heinrich Louis on July 21, 1858, in Tapiau, East Prussia (now Gvardeysk, Russia), to a tanner father, displayed prodigious drawing talent from childhood. He began formal training at the Königsberg Academy in 1876, then moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1880 to 1884, studying under Ludwig von Löfftz and briefly Franz von Defregger, where he absorbed a Realis...