Art, literature & history
Self-Portrait
1920–21
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- Softground etching
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 11.9 x 19.1 cm (4 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 33 x 24 cm (13 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2017.272
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Lovis Corinth. Self-Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Self-Portrait — Lovis Corinth. 1920–21.
Medium: Softground etching. Dimensions: Platemark: 11.9 x 19.1 cm (4 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 33 x 24 cm (13 x 9 7/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
After suffering a stroke in 1911, the German artist Lovis Corinth made numerous self-portraits that exhibit a preoccupation with his own mortality. Corinth created a mood of tension and anxiety by portraying himself in heavy shadow, with eyes staring straight out at the viewer; his marks made in the soft etching ground manifest a nervous energy.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.