Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat (Selbstbildnis im Strohhut)
1913
Lovis Corinth was obsessed with his own face, creating over 100 self-portraits throughout his life, but this 1913 version is particularly intense. Sporting a straw hat with a dark band, he stares back with a haunted gaze that reflects the severe stroke he suffered two years earlier. That medical trauma left him partially paralyzed but also freed his style from academic rules, resulting in these frantic, scratchy lines that scream German Expressionism. It’s a raw look at an artist fighting through physical pain to capture his own soul.
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