Artwork details · 2026-07-08

Self portrait with his wife Charlotte Berend-Corinth and a sekt glass

by Lovis Corinth · 1902

Self portrait with his wife Charlotte Berend-Corinth and a sekt glass by Lovis Corinth

Artist

Lovis Corinth was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.

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Artwork

The Self-Portrait with His Wife and a Glass of Champagne in the catalog raisonné, , is a painting by the German painter Lovis Corinth. The double portrait shows himself and his painting student and later wife Charlotte Berend, who is sitting on his lap with her upper body unclothed and is being embraced by him while he raises a glass. It was created as an engagement painting in Corinth's studio in Berlin in October 1902, a few months before the marriage of the two sitters. The painting, painted in oil on canvas and measuring 98.5 × 108.5 centimetres, is privately owned.

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Artist
Lovis Corinth
Year
1902
Movement
Expressionism
Country
Germany
Location
Unknown