Copper plate: Walchensee after 1919

Editor: This is Lovis Corinth's "Copper plate: Walchensee." It's... well, it's a copper plate, and the texture is really striking. What do you see in this piece, beyond the material itself? Curator: I see a palimpsest of artistic labor and the potential for reproduction, but also a commentary on the gendered nature of labor and landscape. How might we read this landscape through a feminist lens, considering Corinth’s other works and the patriarchal art world he inhabited? Editor: So, by showing us the plate, he's showing us the means of production...and perhaps critiquing it? Curator: Precisely. And by leaving it seemingly unfinished, he's disrupting traditional notions of artistic mastery and the commodification of landscape. What is being "seen" and by whom?