# Self-Portrait

- By: Lovis Corinth (German, 1858–1925)
- Date: 1920–21
- Medium: Softground etching
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Platemark: 11.9 x 19.1 cm (4 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 33 x 24 cm (13 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Culture: Germany
- Credit line: Gift of Jonathan, Michael, and Sarah Silver in memory of their father, Daniel Jeremy Silver
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.272)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2017.272/2017.272_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

After suffering a stroke in 1911, the German artist Lovis Corinth made numerous self-portraits that exhibit a preoccupation with his own mortality. Corinth created a mood of tension and anxiety by portraying himself in heavy shadow, with eyes staring straight out at the viewer; his marks made in the soft etching ground manifest a nervous energy.