Achior Hanged from a Tree (Achior am Baume hängend) (plate, folio 14) from Das Buch Judith (The Book of Judith)
Lovis Corinth
German, 1858–1925
1910
A color lithograph from Lovis Corinth’s illustrated edition of The Book of Judith that dramatizes the hanging of the figure Achior, aiming to convey the raw psychological and physical intensity of the episode through a painterly print technique.
You’re struck by the violent, almost sculptural bodies—furious black hatchwork, strokes of red and blue, and reaching hands and flowering branches that make the suspended, contorted figure feel immediate and unsettling.
Corinth translated the energy of modern painting into lithography, opening book illustration to a bolder, more expressionistic visual language that emphasized emotion and physicality over decorative modesty.
Medium
Lithograph from an illustrated book with twenty-two lithographs (including pictorial initials and ornaments)
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 10 15/16 x 9 1/8" (27.8 x 23.1 cm); page: 18 1/16 x 14 3/8" (45.9 x 36.5 cm)
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Accession
766.1964.9
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