Thursday, November 21, 2024

Modernist Self Portraits

Helene Schjerfbeck
Self Portrait
1912
oil on canvas
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Helene Schjerfbeck
Self Portrait
1915
oil on canvas
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Mikhail Matyushin
Crystal Self Portrait
1917
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Max Beckmann
Self Portrait
1934
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The Drinker (Self Portrait)
1914
oil on canvas
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

Marianne von Werefkin
Self Portrait
ca. 1910
tempera and lacquer on paper
Lenbachhaus, Munich

Ferdinand Hodler
Self Portrait
1916
oil on canvas
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève

Marta Hoepffner
Self Portrait
1938
gelatin silver print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Conrad Felixmüller
Self Portrait
1915
drypoint
Milwaukee Art Museum

Aglaia Papas
Self Portrait
ca. 1932
oil on canvas
National Gallery, Athens

Jankel Adler
Self Portrait
ca. 1946
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Paula Modersohn-Becker
Self Portrait with Blue Background
1906
oil on cardboard
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Otto Dix
Self Portrait
1931
tempera and oil on panel
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Anita Rée
Self Portrait
ca. 1911
oil on panel
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Max Slevogt
Self Portrait
1908
oil on canvas
Lenbachhaus, Munich

Lovis Corinth
Self Portrait
1914
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

The Moods

Time drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out,
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day;
What one in the rout
Of the fire-born moods
Has fallen away?

– W.B. Yeats (1899)