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Julius Siegfried Uetz
Self-portrait, um 1870
About the object
How does the artist see himself and how does he want to be seen? The self-portrait, painted slightly from below, depicts Uetz with a full beard and a pair of filigree spectacles, so-called Schubert glasses with a pretzel-shaped bridge. Reddening on the cheeks and nose suggest that Uetz was striving for an authentic rendering in the self-portrait.