Autoportrait (Selbstbildnis)
1912
Lovis Corinth captures himself here just a year after a devastating stroke nearly paralyzed his right side, and you can feel that physical struggle in every jagged line. Instead of smooth realism, the image bursts with frantic, scratchy energy—a raw shift toward Expressionism as he relearned how to hold a tool. He stares back with intense focus, clutching a dark palette, while a floating hand study in the top left corner looks almost like a medical check of his recovering motor skills. It’s a powerful portrait of an artist refusing to let his body stop his creativity.
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