Death and the Artist (Tod und Künstler)

1920-1921

Lovis Corinth

Associated Names
Lovis Corinth

Artist, German, 1858 - 1925

Alfred Ruckenbrod

Printer

The image depicts a drawing of a person's head and upper torso facing the viewer. The person has a bald head with some hair visible around the sides and back, a prominent nose, and deeply shadowed eyes looking forward. Their hands are visible in the foreground holding a pen or pencil. In the upper left corner, there is a figure resembling a skeletal face in the background. The person is wearing a garment, and the background is a plain, textured surface with no distinct features, emphasizing the interaction between the two figures in the foreground.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    softground etching and drypoint on green wove paper (proof)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.8 × 17.9 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 34.2 × 25 cm (13 7/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.24

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Müller 1960, no. 546

  • Series Title

    Totentanz (Dance of Death)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin, Germany); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., 2002; acquired 2012 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1960

  • Müller, Heinrich. Die späte Graphik von Lovis Corinth. Hamburg, Germany: Lichtwarkstiftung, 1960, no. 546.

Inscriptions

upper right in plate: Tod & Künstler; lower left in graphite: [undeciphered] Probedrück Nr 3; lower right in graphite: Lovis Corinth

Markings

stamped verso in black ink: R

Wikidata ID

Q76347842

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