Lovis Corinth (Prussian/German 1858 to 1925)
Perhaps no other artist since Rembrandt was so consumed with self portraiture as Corinth, an east Prussian (now Russia) native who studied in Paris as a history painter but spent his career in Munich and primarily Berlin as a quasi-Impressionist and German Expressionist artist. Corinth etched and lithographed no fewer than fifty self portraits, almost twice as many as Rembrandt. He suffered a major stroke in 1911 which did not deter his prodigious output, rather it emboldened his work and lent his self portraits a fascinating introspectiveness that few artists have achieved.
Information courtesy of Swann Galleries, May 2003.