Tod und Paar (Death and the Couple) from Totentanz (Dance of Death)
Artist: Lovis Corinth (German, 1858-1925)
Publisher: Euphorion Verlag, Berlin
Date: 1921 (published 1922)
Dimensions:
(Sheet) H: 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm); W: 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm);
(Image) H: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm); W: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Medium: Soft-ground etching on cream wove paper.
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner
Object number: 2004.68
Label Text:
Lovis Corinth, one of the most successful artists in Germany in the early 20th century, was called the latter-day Rubens. After suffering a stroke in 1911 that caused paralysis in his left side, his style became more expressionistic, even violent at times. In Totentanz (Dance of Death), a set of five etchings, he modernizes a theme explored by German printmakers since the Renaissance: the inevitability of death. In this gloomily atmospheric print, a couple (Corinth’s close friends the etcher Hermann Struck and his wife Mally) together confront Death, dressed in a high hat and holding an hourglass. The Strucks hold hands, seeming to strengthen one another as they stare into Death’s hollow eyes.
Lovis Corinth, one of the most successful artists in Germany in the early 20th century, was called the latter-day Rubens. After suffering a stroke in 1911 that caused paralysis in his left side, his style became more expressionistic, even violent at times. In Totentanz (Dance of Death), a set of five etchings, he modernizes a theme explored by German printmakers since the Renaissance: the inevitability of death. In this gloomily atmospheric print, a couple (Corinth’s close friends the etcher Hermann Struck and his wife Mally) together confront Death, dressed in a high hat and holding an hourglass. The Strucks hold hands, seeming to strengthen one another as they stare into Death’s hollow eyes.
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