Selbstbildnis im Strohhut (Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat)
1913
Medium
drypoint in black
Dimensions
plate: 23.6 x 17.7 cm (9 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.) sheet: 29 x 21.9 cm (11 7/16 x 8 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1947.7.25
Art Historical Context
Lovis Corinth's *Selbstbildnis im Strohhut (Self-Port in a Straw Hat)*, created in 1913, captures the artist in a moment of introspective confidence. This intimate drypoint print, measuring 23.6 x 17.7 cm on the plate, showcases Corinth at age 55, gazing directly at the viewer beneath a casual straw hat. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection, it exemplifies the German master's late-career exploration of self-representation through printmaking. Drypoint, a technique where Corinth scratched directly into a copper plate with a steel needle, produces richly textured lines t...
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...