1812-1813
Self-Portrait of Ludwig Emil Grimm
Ludwig Emil GrimmGerman, 1790 - 1863
Many young artists of the German Romantic period were so enthralled by the works of Raphael and Albrecht Dürer that they adopted the style of dress and long hair worn by people in the pictures painted by those two revered Renaissance masters. For this self-portrait, Ludwig Grimm went so far as to shave off his habitual moustache so he would look more like a certain painting in the Bavarian royal collection that was then thought to be a youthful self-portrait by Raphael and which Grimm had copied the year before.
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