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Ecce homo, 1925

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Etching on paper
39.3×33.6 cm

Artists

  • Lovis Corinth

    (Tapiau/Gwardeisk 1858–1925 Zandvoort)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Toward the end of his life, Lovis Corinth (1858–1925) increasingly returned to the subject of the Passion and Death of Christ. This etching is related to the oil painting of the same title which is in the holdings of the Basel Art Museum. Flanked by Pilate and a soldier, the tormented Messiah is brought before the viewers, an epitome of suffering humanity as such. The faces of the figures are summarily sketched, only Christ stands out with clearly drawn features. His distinctive appearance is locked in between brutality and violence on one side and Pilate’s opportunistic behavior on the other. This is also how Corinth saw himself, as is evidenced by a drawing of that same year, Self-Portrait as Man of Sorrows.

AK, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Lovis Corinth
Title
Ecce homo
Date
1925
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Etching on paper
Dimensions
39.3×33.6 cm
Signature
Signed on the plate upper left: Lovis Corinth; designated lower right: EXXE HOMO; signed lower right: Lovis Corinth; lower left: I.1.Pr.
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 1794
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Keywords
group portraitman/boyPilate showing Christ to the peoplepain/sorrow/sadnessChrist: suffering with crown of thornsclothing (upper part of the body)clothing (lower part of the body)standing figureletters/alphabet/script

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994)

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group portraitman/boyPilate showing Christ to the peoplepain/sorrow/sadnessChrist: suffering with crown of thornsclothing (upper part of the body)clothing (lower part of the body)standing figureletters/alphabet/script