Walchensee mit Jochberg (Walchensee with Jochberg)

1923

Lovis Corinth

Associated Names
Lovis Corinth

Artist, German, 1858 - 1925

The image is an etching of a landscape with a horizon line in the middle of the composition. Mountainous forms meet the sky, and there are hills and mountain ridges beyond a water body. The etching uses a brushstroke technique with short, scratchy lines for texture and detail. The color palette is limited to black ink on a light tan background, creating contrast and emphasizing linear elements and textures in the landscape. Vegetation details are depicted with dense crosshatchings, while distant mountains appear softer and more abstracted.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.5 × 23.5 cm (6 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 31.2 × 38 cm (12 5/16 × 14 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.57

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Müller 1960, no. 823

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frederick Mulder, London, England); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., 1989; acquired 2012 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1960

  • Müller, Heinrich. Die späte Graphik von Lovis Corinth. Hamburg, Germany: Lichtwarkstiftung, 1960, no. 823.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Lovis Corinth; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: M.K. 769

Markings

stamped center verso in black ink: R; stamped lower left verso in blue ink: GK [crossed out with blue ballpoint ink]

Wikidata ID

Q76347879

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