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LOVIS CORINTH Der Künstler und der Tod I.
Drypoint, 1916. 272x202 mm; 103/4x8 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of 75. Signed in pencil, lower right. Paper tape verso edges, splitting along the plate mark lower right. A very good impression with warm plate tone.
Perhaps no other artist since Rembrandt was so consumed with self portraiture as Corinth (1858-1925), an east Prussian (now Russia) native who studied in Paris as a history painter but spent his career in Munich and primarily Berlin as a quasi-Impressionist and German Expressionist artist. Corinth etched and lithographed no fewer than 50 self portraits, almost twice as many as Rembrandt. He suffered a major stroke in 1911 which did not deter his prodigious output, rather it emboldened his work and lent his self portraits a fascinating introspectiveness that few artists have achieved. Schwarz 238.
