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By 1912 Lovis Corinth had survived the serious stroke of December 1911 that left his right side partially impaired. What followed was one of the most remarkable recoveries in art history: retrained to paint with diminished motor control, Corinth's late style emerged as even more charged and expressive than his earlier work. This 1912 canvas, now in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, represents the first year of that transformed practice — a moment of creative rebirth under physical constraint. Critics and colleagues noted the new ferocity in his brushwork, as if physical vulnerability translated directly into painterly urgency. The Dresden collection's holding of this work makes it an important document of this transitional moment.

Post-stroke Corinth canvases from 1912 onward show a loosening of previous technical control into something more trembling and raw. Brushstrokes become wider and less precisely directed, yet the overall compositional intelligence remains intact. Color is often applied in shorter, more agitated marks that accumulate into vibrant, unstable surfaces quite different from his pre-1911 work.