For Corinth, the self portrait was a vehicle for self-revelation through painting. Each year from 1900 onwards, Corinth would undertake a self portrait just before his birthday. Dramatic presentations of himself in role portraits, his use of costume, disguise and allegory and their serial production, were unparalleled at the time. Whether he showed himself busy and active or in despair, Corinth reveals his inner being in the self-portrait. (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3VpOArBbibMJ:www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-musee-dorsay/exhibitions-in-the-musee-dorsay-more/article/lovis-corinth-7834.html%3Fprint%3D1%26+&cd=11&hl=nl&ct=clnk&gl=nl&client=firefox-b) Corinth painted numerous self portraits.... In many of his self portraits he assumed guises such as an armored knight (The Victor, 1910), or Samson (The Blinded Samson, 1912). A self portrait of 1924 is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovis_Corinth)