Tiergarten in January
1922
Berlin's famous Tiergarten park looks like a haunted forest in this scratchy, energetic print by Lovis Corinth. Created in 1922 during the Expressionist movement, the jagged black lines make the bare trees shiver as if they're freezing in the January cold. Corinth had suffered a stroke a decade earlier, which actually freed his style from strict realism into this wild, emotional chaos. You can see the artist's pencil signature and the edition number '46/100' at the bottom, marking this as one of a limited series of these moody winter scenes.
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