I have an image of Christ on the Way of Sorrow to present this week from Lovis Corinth, a German artist I was eager to include in my collection after seeing a 2008 exhibition of his work at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. I knew about Corinth's role in in the history of West European art as a bridge between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but I had not expected to find so many works on religious themes. I was especially drawn to a 1906 oil painting of the Deposition, where a soldier stands at the foot of the Cross, munching on a sandwich, while a second guard drew nails from the dead Christ’s feet with a pair of pliers. It epitomized the banality of evil for me as few works of art have. Corinth moved in stages from naturalistic to impressionistic imagery, finally, working in the expressionist style that would characterize early modern German art. We see signs of this artistic evolution in the sketchy, impassioned linework of Corinth's 1916 etching, made during World War I, where Christ, fallen under the Cross, addresses the women of Jerusalem with prophetic words from Luke 23:28 scribbled at the bottom of the plate: “Weep not for me but weep for yourselves and your children.” (John Kohan)