Self-portrait with a Tyrolean hat

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Self-portrait with a Tyrolean hat (Lovis Corinth)
Self-portrait with a Tyrolean hat
Lovis Corinth , 1913
Oil on canvas
80 × 60 cm
Folkwang Museum , Essen

The self-portrait with a Tyrolean hat is a painting by the German painter Lovis Corinth . The picture was painted and completed by the artist in 1913 on a trip to Ortisei in Val Gardena in South Tyrol , today it hangs in the Folkwang Museum in Essen .

Image description

The picture shows the painter in a chest portrait in the clothes customary for South Tyrol. This consists of a green-black-checked jacket, which is described in the catalog raisonné of his wife Charlotte Berend-Corinth as "black, green checked linen jacket ", and a white painting with a high collar underneath. On his head he wears a Tyrolean hat adorned with a wide leather strap and a pheasant feather . In the right hand in the lower left corner of the picture, the artist is holding several brushes and a palette.

The chest is turned to the left, but the face is directed frontally towards the viewer, with the right half of the face slightly in the shadow. The background of the picture is white and light blue. On the upper left edge of the picture the painting is dated August 5, 1913, on the right of the head it is with the words

EGO
Lovis Corinth
St UlRICH. Val Gardena

designated.

background

Wilhelmine in traditional costume , 1913

The self-portrait was taken on a family outing in Ortisei in the South Tyrolean Val Gardena in 1913, which was used as a vacation. During this holiday, Lovis Corinth painted not only self-portraits, but also portraits of his daughter ( naked child in the wash tub , Wilhelmine in traditional dress ) and his wife ( girl in the forest stream , Tyrolean woman with a cat ). In addition, the landscape pictures Bridge in Tyrol and Ortisei in Val Gardena were created .

The family spent a holiday in the town as early as 1911, the year in which the painting Mother's Love was created, in which Charlotte Berend-Corinth was portrayed with her son Thomas. Lovis Corinth had suffered a first severe stroke in December 1911, in which the right half of his face and parts of the right half of his body were paralyzed.

Classification in the work of Corinth

Self-portrait with a black hat , 1912

Lovis Corinth painted numerous self-portraits , which were usually taken every year to his birthday and thus documented his entire life. The self-portrait with a Tyrolean hat belonged to this series and followed in 1913 after the self-portrait with a black hat , which was created first after his stroke in December 1911 and is now in a private collection. Compared to this one, which was strongly marked by desperation, the self-portrait with a Tyrolean hat appears more balanced despite the stern look. This is intensified by the strong colors that clearly set the portrait apart from the light background.

The stroke, however, led to a change in the composition of the picture and Corinth's position in the picture due to the resulting paralysis. While he usually painted frontally or with a preference for the right side of his face until 1912, he painted and drew this now paralyzed half of his face in his portraits after 1912, usually on the opposite side and in the shadow of the picture. In addition, his self-portraits became more serious, after Charlotte Berend-Corinth the self-portrait with a black hat was "the first of the many self-portraits that bears the deeply sad expression."

Provenance

The self-portrait with a Tyrolean hat was in the private collection of O. Hermes until 1917 and was sold to the Folkwang Museum the following year . In 1937, at the time of National Socialism in Germany , the picture was confiscated along with around 1,400 other works in the museum as part of the “ Degenerate Art ” campaign and sold abroad. It was privately owned and could be bought back in 1967 from the Museum Folkwang through the Resch art dealer in Gauting .

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b c d Peter-Klaus Schuster , Christoph Vitali, Barbara Butts (eds.): Lovis Corinth . Prestel Munich 1996; P. 103. ISBN 3-7913-1645-1 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Charlotte Berend-Corinth : Lovis Corinth: The paintings . Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958, 1992; BC 586, p. 143. ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .
  3. ↑ Olaf Blanke: I and me: Selfportraiture in Brain Damage. In: Julien Bogousslavsky, MG Hennerici (ed.): Neurological disorders in famous artists, Part 2. Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience Volume 22. Karger, Basel 2007; Pp. 14-29
  4. ^ Charlotte Berend-Corinth : Lovis Corinth: The paintings . Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958, 1992; BC 546, p. 137. ISBN 3-7654-2566-4 .

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