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Portrait of Alfred Kuhn, 1923

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on cardboard
62.2×51.6 cm

Artists

  • Lovis Corinth

    (Tapiau/Gwardeisk 1858–1925 Zandvoort)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The picture shows the art historian and journalist Alfred Kuhn (1885–1940), who was editor of Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt magazine in 1922/23. He mainly engaged with contemporary art and was its chronicler and critic. Lovis Corinth (1858–1940) painted Kuhn in his Berlin studio in Klopstockstrasse 48. He fit his model into the picture diagonally, so that it fully fills the picture space. The colors are rather dark and muted but the broad, hastily expressive brushstroke with its skewed sweep indicates a conscious turn away from the natural model. The expression is rather based in the idea of getting an immediate intuitive grasp on the man portrayed that brings out his personality.

AK, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Lovis Corinth
Title
Portrait of Alfred Kuhn
Date
1923
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
62.2×51.6 cm
Signature
Signed and dated upper left: Lovis Corinth 1923.
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 2091
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Charlotte Berend-Corinth/Béatrice Hernard: Lovis Corinth. Die Gemälde. Werkverzeichnis. 2. Auflage, München 1992.
Keywords
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Dr. Alfred Kuhn, Berlin;
Privatbesitz, Südafrika;
Auktion: 1973, Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin, Los Nr. 10;
Auktion: 26.11.1980, Sotheby`s London, Los. Nr. 137; (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1980-1994);
Leopold Museum Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Charlotte Berend-Corinth, Lovis Corinth. Die Gemälde. Werkverzeichnis, München 1992, S. 191, Nr. 915 (Abb. S. 838)

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