Reflexivity and The Self-Portrait

From Schiele to Beckmann at the Neue Galerie

Georg Scholz (1890–1945). Self-Portrait in front of an Advertising Column, 1926. Oil on canvas 60 x 77.8 cm (23 5/8 x 30 5/8 in.) Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Photo: bpk Bildagentur / Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe / Art Resource, NY. © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image courtesy of the Neue Galerie.

The Self-Portrait, from Schiele to Beckmann now on view at the Neue Galerie in New York, presents a phenomenal selection of artworks by Paula Modersohn-Becker, Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Felix Nussbaum, Egon Schiele and Georg Scholz — early modern…