Attinghausen and Rudenz (Attinghausen und Rudenz) from William Tell (Wilhelm Tell)
Lovis Corinth
German, 1858–1925
(1923-24, published 1925)
This color lithograph by Lovis Corinth interprets a moment from Schiller’s William Tell, using painterly, hurried marks to stage a tense encounter between a standing younger man and a seated elder.
It looks like a brusque oil sketch transferred to paper: chalky, layered strokes of brown, black, yellow and blue build a tall figure seen mostly from the back and a shadowy, hunched companion against diagonally hatched light and two small dark windows.
Executed late in Corinth’s career, this sheet demonstrates how painters brought expressive brushwork and color into lithography, widening the technical and emotional range of modern printmaking in early 20th‑century Germany.
Medium
One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs (including title page)
Dimensions
composition 9 3/16 x 7 3/16" (23.3 x 18.2 cm)
sheet 15 1/8 x 10 11/16" (38 x 27.2 cm)
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Credit
J. B. Neumann
Accession
364.1956.4
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