Self-Portrait with Hat and Coat (1915): Art, History and Details

Self-Portrait with Hat and Coat (1915) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Lovis Corinth (German, 1858–1925).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

After suffering a near-fatal stroke in 1911, Corinth often turned to painting his own image to reveal insight into his emotions. This candid, expressive painting is one of his finest self-portraits from the last decade of his life. His powerful, spontaneous style influenced the development of modernist painting in Germany. From 1915 to 1925, he served as president of the Berlin Secession, a group formed in opposition against state-sponsored art and which organized its own independent exhibitions.

Object facts

• Title: Self-Portrait with Hat and Coat
• Date: 1915
• Creator attribution: Lovis Corinth (German, 1858–1925)
• Culture: Germany, 20th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 118.1 x 97.5 x 8.3 cm (46 1/2 x 38 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.); Unframed: 99.7 x 78.8 cm (39 1/4 x 31 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1979.14

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.
• Henning, Edward B. “A Late Self-Portrait by Lovis Corinth.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 9 (November 1980): 279–284.
• Sackerlotzky, Rotraud. “Two Self-Portraits by Lovis Corinth.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 10 (December 1983): 418–431.

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