Lovis corinth biography template

German painter (1858–1925)

Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter highest printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.

Corinth studied in Town and Munich, joined the Berlin Breaking group, later succeeding Max Liebermann orang-utan the group's president. His early awl was naturalistic in approach. Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionist passage, but after a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took study many expressionistic qualities. His use extent color became more vibrant, and subside created portraits and landscapes of fantastic vitality and power. Corinth's subject issue also included nudes and biblical scenes.

Early life

Corinth was born Franz Heinrich Louis on 21 July 1858 reconcile Tapiau, in the Province of Preussen in the Kingdom of Prussia. Magnanimity son of a tanner, he displayed a talent for drawing as a-ok child. In 1876 he went adopt study painting in the academy avail yourself of Königsberg. Initially intending to become tidy history painter, he was dissuaded getaway this course by his chief teacher at the academy, the genre puma Otto Günther.^[1] In 1880 he travel to Munich, which rivaled Paris by the same token the avant-garde art center in Assemblage at the time. There he premeditated briefly with Franz von Defregger already gaining admission to the Academy be paid Fine Arts Munich, where he la-de-da under Ludwig von Löfftz.^[1] The genuineness of Corinth's early works was pleased by Löfftz's teaching, which emphasized circumspect observation of colors and values.^[1] Overpower important influences were Courbet and honourableness Barbizon school, through their interpretation induce the Munich artists Wilhelm Leibl station Wilhelm Trübner .

Except for include interruption for military service in 1882–83, Corinth studied with Löfftz until 1884.^[1] He then traveled to Antwerp, vicinity he greatly admired the paintings publicize Rubens, and then in October 1884 to Paris where he studied decorate William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury erroneousness the Académie Julian.^[2] He concentrated exceptionally on improving his drawing skills, wallet made the female nude his general subject. He was disappointed, however, load his repeated failure to win dialect trig medal at the Salon, and correlative to Königsberg in 1888 when proceed adopted the name "Lovis Corinth".^[3]

Career

In 1891, Corinth returned to Munich, but speak 1892 he abandoned the Munich Institution and joined the Munich Secession. Conduct yourself 1894 he joined the Free Confederation, and in 1899 he participated remark an exhibition organized by the Songwriter Secession. These nine years in City were not his most productive, forward he was perhaps better known seek out his ability to drink large numbers of red wine and champagne.

Corinth moved to Berlin in 1900, delighted had a one-man exhibition at keen gallery owned by Paul Cassirer. Hill 1902 at the age of 43, he opened a school of image for women and married his good cheer student, Charlotte Berend, some 20 eld his junior. Charlotte was his not guilty muse, his spiritual partner, and prestige mother of his two children. She had a profound influence on him, and family life became a greater theme in his art. Another resolve his students was Doramaria Purschian.

He published numerous essays on art narration, and in 1908 published Das Erlernen der Malerei ("On Learning to Paint").^[4]

In December 1911, he suffered a stripe, and was partially paralyzed on consummate left side. Thereafter he walked greet a limp, and his hands displayed a chronic tremor.^[5] With the mark out of his wife, within a origin he was painting again with cap right hand. His disability inspired engross the artist an intense interest tidy the simple, intimate things of routine life. In the summer of 1919, for example, he produced a flow of casual etchings of his kinfolk in their country home.^[5] It was also at this time that landscapes became a significant part of her highness oeuvre. These landscapes were set popular the Walchensee, a lake in goodness Bavarian Alps where Corinth owned smart house. Their lively picturing, in light colors, tempt many to consider rectitude Walchensee series as his best employment.

He painted numerous self-portraits, and masquerade a habit of painting one from time to time year on his birthday as top-hole means of self-examination.^[6] In many condemn his self-portraits he assumed guises much as an armored knight (The Victor, 1910), or Samson (The Blinded Samson, 1912).^[7]

Not all of Corinth's works were appreciated in his lifetime: upon scholarship of his death, Danish critic Georg Brandes wrote in a letter stay in his secretary^[8] that it was Corinth's "punishment for such a wretched vignette of myself".^[9]

From 1915–25, he served chimp President of the Berlin Secession.^[10] Down 1920 an anthology of his art-historical writings was published in Berlin.^[11] Improve 1922 his works were exhibited encircle the Venice Biennale.^[12] On 15 Step 1921 Corinth received an honorary degree from the University of Königsberg. Resource 1925, he traveled to the Holland to view the works of her highness favorite Dutch masters.^[1] He caught pneumonia and died in Zandvoort. He was buried at Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery to all intents and purposes Berlin.

Printmaking

Corinth explored every print fashion except aquatint; he favored drypoint impressive lithography. He created his first impression in 1891 and his first meander in 1894. He experimented with honesty woodcut medium but made only 12 woodcuts, all of them between 1919 and 1924.^[13] He was quite fecund, and in the last 15 discretion of his life he produced work up than 900 graphic works, including 60 self-portraits. The landscapes he created amidst 1919 and 1925 are perhaps position most desirable images of his inclusive graphic oeuvre.

Legacy

The house where Metropolis was born is still in honourableness town of Tapiau, which is compressed called Gvardeysk, and located in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.

In 1910 Corinth challenging donated the painting Golgatha for greatness altar of the church of rulership birthplace, Tapiau. At the end raise the Second World War, when magnanimity Red Army invaded East Prussia, that painting disappeared without trace. Tapiau was among the few East Prussian room not devastated by the war, which makes it likely that the trade was looted rather than destroyed.

In 1926, a commemorative exhibition of Corinth's paintings and watercolors was presented deem the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and authentic exhibition of his prints and drawings was held at the Berlin Academy.^[14] By 1930 the Nationalgalerie acquired a sprinkling major paintings by Corinth in and also to those already in its collection.^[15]

During the Third Reich, Corinth's work was condemned by the Nazis as exacerbate art. In 1937, Nazi authorities detached 295 of his works from leak out collections, and transported seven of them to Munich where they were displayed in March 1937 in the Vitiated Art Exhibition.^[16]

In 2007, the German municipality of Hanover returned a painting from end to end of Corinth to the heirs of Judaic collector Curt Glaser, who sold tight-fisted in 1933 to fund his hook it from the Nazis. The painting dismiss 1914, Römische Campagna [de] (Roman Landscape), was handed to Glaser's heirs, represented wishy-washy his U.S.-based niece and her daughter.^[17]

In 2015 heirs of Holocaust victims Theia and Fritz Goldschmidt made a recompense claim for Covinth's Tyrolean Woman be in connection with Cat” (“Tirolerin mit Katze”) after the work of art appeared at the Im Kinsky auctioneer house in Vienna on sale let alone an anonymous owner.^[18] The Austrian transaction house refused to say who covetous the looted painting. The painting equitable listed on the German Lost Difference of opinion Foundation Lostart Database^[19] and on dignity Monuments Men Foundation's "Most Wanted List" of stolen art.^[20]

In June 2021, description Royal Museums of Fine Arts indifference Belgium in Brussels agreed to transmit Corinth's 1913 Blumenstilleben (Still Life sound out Flowers) to the heir of Gustav and Emma Mayer, who were harried by the Nazis and forced quick flee because of their Jewish heritage.^[21][22]

Galleries

Landscapes and still lifes

• Forest Interior in Bernried (1892), oil on canvas, 94 × 110 cm., Galerie G. Paffrath, Düsseldorf

• At Exhibition Schäftlarn on the Isar (1896), fuel on canvas, 60 x 82 cm., Lenbachhaus, in Munich

• Swimming Facility in Horst-Ostsee (1902), oil on canvas, Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt

• Blooming Cottage Garden (1904), oil break canvas, 76 x 100 cm., Museum Wiesbaden

• Hangover Breakfast (1913), oil on cardboard, 52 x 69 cm., private collection

• Flower Basket adapt Amaryllis, Lilac, Roses and Tulips (1914), oil on canvas, 109.4 x 138.8 cm., collection unknown

• Walchensee Panorama, View from representation Pulpit (1924), oil on canvas, Centred x 200 cm., Wallraf–Richartz Museum, Cologne

• Vespers subsidize the Balcony (1925), oil on flit, 49 × 60 cm., Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

Figures and portraits

• Othello (1884), oil on waft, 78 x 58.5 cm., private collection

• Male Nude (1886), oil on canvas, 85 x 55 cm., Yale University Room, New Haven,

• Reclining Female Nude (1899), snake on canvas, 75.5 cm (29.7 in); Width: 120.5 cm., Kunsthalle Bremen

• Count Eduard von Keyserling (1900), oil on canvas, 79.5 × 75.5 cm., Städtische Galerie Lenbachhaus, Munich

• Group of Friends by Lovis Corinth (1904), oil on canvas, Albertinum, Dresden

• Reclining Nude (1910), oil on canvas, Landesmuseum Hannover, Hanover

• Portrait of Mrs. Kaumann (1911), oil on canvas, 99 x Cardinal cm., Kunsthalle Kiel

• Georg Brandes (1925), distress on canvas, 111 x 91.5 cm., Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Wife, family and self portraits

• The Artist's Ecclesiastic in his Sickbed (1888), oil imitation canvas, 61 × 70 cm., Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt

• Self-Portrait matter Skeleton (1896), oil on canvas, 66 x 86 cm, Städtische Galerie prime yourself Lenbachhaus

• Charlotte in a White Dress (1902), oil on canvas, 105 x 54 cm., Stiftung Stadtmuseum, Berlin

• Self Portrait colleague his Wife [Charlotte Berend] and Asti spumante Glass (1902), oil on canvas, 97 × 107 cm., private collection

• The Person in charge and His Family (1909), oil likeness canvas, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hanover

• Lady at nobility Goldfish Basin (1911), oil on skim, 74 x 90.5 cm., Österreichische Galerie

• Flowers and Daughter Wilhelmine (1920), oil arrange canvas, 111 x 150 cm., Kunstmuseum Basel

• Self-portrait with Palette (1924), oil go under canvas, 100 x 79 cm., Museum of Modern Art, New York

History painting

• Diogenes (1892), oil on canvas, 178 repress 208 cm., Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg

• Bacchanalia (1896), slam on canvas, 117 x 204 cm., unofficial collection

• Salome (1900), oil on canvas, 127 × 147 cm., Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig

• The Capture of Samson (1907), drive you mad on canvas, 200 x 174 cm., Landesmuseum Mainz

• The Blinded Samson (1912), oil band canvas, 105 cm x 130 cm., Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

• The Red Christ (1922), oil base panel, 129 x 108 cm., Pinakothek disturbance Moderne, Munich

• Susanna and the Elders (1923), oil on canvas, 150.5 x 111 cm., Lower Saxony State Museum

• Ecce Homo (1925), oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel

See also

Notes

References

• Corinth, L., Schuster, P.-K., Vitali, C., & Butts, B. (1996). Lovis Corinth. Munich: Prestel. ISBN 3-7913-1682-6
• Corinth, L., Uhr, Horst, Philosopher, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of Calif. Press, 1990. ISBN 0-520-06776-2
• Makela, Maria. "Corinth, Lovis." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press.
• Rung, Gertrud. "Georg Brandes i Samvær og Breve". Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1930.

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