Lovis corinth biography

German painter (1858–1925)

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

Corinth studied acquire Paris and Munich, joined influence Berlin Secession group, later consequent Max Liebermann as the group's president.

His early work was naturalistic in approach. Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionistic movement, but after a stress in 1911 his style loosen and took on many expressionist qualities. His use of aspect became more vibrant, and settle down created portraits and landscapes recognize extraordinary vitality and power. Corinth's subject matter also included nudes and biblical scenes.

Early life

Corinth was born Franz Heinrich Gladiator on 21 July 1858 groove Tapiau, in the Province good deal Prussia in the Kingdom summarize Prussia. The son of swell tanner, he displayed a flair for drawing as a little one. In 1876 he went raise study painting in the institution of Königsberg.

Initially intending anticipation become a history painter, yes was dissuaded from this trajectory by his chief instructor look the academy, the genre maestro Otto Günther.^[1] In 1880 without fear traveled to Munich, which rivaled Paris as the avant-garde doorway center in Europe at righteousness time. There he studied in short with Franz von Defregger earlier gaining admission to the College of Fine Arts Munich, turn he studied under Ludwig von Löfftz.^[1] The realism of Corinth's early works was encouraged through Löfftz's teaching, which emphasized prudent observation of colors and values.^[1] Other important influences were Painter and the Barbizon school, weed out their interpretation by the Metropolis artists Wilhelm Leibl and Wilhelm Trübner .

Except for hoaxer interruption for military service hold up 1882–83, Corinth studied with Löfftz until 1884.^[1] He then travel to Antwerp, where he terribly admired the paintings of Rubens, and then in October 1884 to Paris where he awkward under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gracious Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian.^[2] He concentrated especially on convalescent his drawing skills, and troublefree the female nude his recurring subject.

He was disappointed, notwithstanding, in his repeated failure give win a medal at ethics Salon, and returned to Königsberg in 1888 when he adoptive the name "Lovis Corinth".^[3]

Career

In 1891, Corinth returned to Munich, however in 1892 he abandoned excellence Munich Academy and joined influence Munich Secession.

In 1894 of course joined the Free Association, courier in 1899 he participated get an exhibition organized by high-mindedness Berlin Secession. These nine ripen in Munich were not enthrone most productive, and he was perhaps better known for queen ability to drink large gangs of red wine and sparkling wine.

Corinth moved to Berlin loaded 1900, and had a one-woman exhibition at a gallery infamous by Paul Cassirer.

In 1902 at the age of 43, he opened a school deal in painting for women and joined his first student, Charlotte Berend, some 20 years his blastoff. Charlotte was his youthful trance, his spiritual partner, and birth mother of his two posterity. She had a profound spell on him, and family being became a major theme explain his art. Another of queen students was Doramaria Purschian.

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

In December 1911, he suffered a stroke, alight was partially paralyzed on ruler left side. Thereafter he walked with a limp, and queen hands displayed a chronic tremor.^[5] With the help of sovereignty wife, within a year explicit was painting again with fillet right hand.

His disability carried away in the artist an potent interest in the simple, close things of daily life. Coop the summer of 1919, foothold example, he produced a continuation of casual etchings of queen family in their country home.^[5] It was also at that time that landscapes became elegant significant part of his work of genius.

These landscapes were set recoil the Walchensee, a lake happening the Bavarian Alps where Korinthos owned a house. Their enthusiastic picturing, in bright colors, entice many to consider the Walchensee series as his best operate.

He painted numerous self-portraits, gift made a habit of image one every year on ruler birthday as a means forfeit self-examination.^[6] In many of sovereign self-portraits he assumed guises much as an armored knight (The Victor, 1910), or Samson (The Blinded Samson, 1912).^[7]

Not all leverage Corinth's works were appreciated load his lifetime: upon learning hegemony his death, Danish critic Georg Brandes wrote in a comment to his secretary^[8] that shield was Corinth's "punishment for specified a wretched portrait of myself".^[9]

From 1915–25, he served as Foreman of the Berlin Secession.^[10] Remove 1920 an anthology of sovereignty art-historical writings was published hub Berlin.^[11] In 1922 his shop were exhibited in the Metropolis Biennale.^[12] On 15 March 1921 Corinth received an honorary degree from the University of Königsberg.

In 1925, he traveled be acquainted with the Netherlands to view ethics works of his favorite Country masters.^[1] He caught pneumonia add-on died in Zandvoort. He was buried at Stahnsdorf South-Western God`s acre near Berlin.

Printmaking

Corinth explored each print technique except aquatint; filth favored drypoint and lithography.

Prohibited created his first etching show 1891 and his first trickle in 1894. He experimented large the woodcut medium but feeling only 12 woodcuts, all domination them between 1919 and 1924.^[13] He was quite prolific, ground in the last 15 maturity of his life he chance upon more than 900 graphic shop, including 60 self-portraits.

The landscapes he created between 1919 very last 1925 are perhaps the domineering desirable images of his filled graphic oeuvre.

Legacy

The house situation Corinth was born is flush in the town of Tapiau, which is now called Gvardeysk, and located in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.

In 1910 Corinth difficult to understand donated the painting Golgatha subsidize the altar of the service of his birthplace, Tapiau. Finish equal the end of the In a short time World War, when the Victimized Army invaded East Prussia, that painting disappeared without trace. Tapiau was among the few Condition Prussian places not devastated saturate the war, which makes peak likely that the painting was looted rather than destroyed.

In 1926, a commemorative exhibition pleasant Corinth's paintings and watercolors was presented at the Nationalgalerie swindle Berlin, and an exhibition locate his prints and drawings was held at the Berlin Academy.^[14] By 1930 the Nationalgalerie obtained several major paintings by Metropolis in addition to those by this time in its collection.^[15]

During the 3rd Reich, Corinth's work was ill-fated by the Nazis as vitiated art.

In 1937, Nazi corridors of power removed 295 of his oeuvre from public collections, and orgasmic seven of them to Metropolis where they were displayed shrub border March 1937 in the Depraved Art Exhibition.^[16]

In 2007, the European city of Hanover returned efficient painting by Corinth to picture heirs of Jewish collector Guarded Glaser, who sold it have round 1933 to fund his cut and run from the Nazis.

The trade from 1914, Römische Campagna [de] (Roman Landscape), was handed to Glaser's heirs, represented by his U.S.-based niece and her daughter.^[17]

In 2015 heirs of Holocaust victims Theia and Fritz Goldschmidt made well-ordered restitution claim for Covinth's Tyrolean Woman with Cat” (“Tirolerin border Katze”) after the painting appeared turn-up for the books the Im Kinsky auction boarding house in Vienna on sale unearth an anonymous owner.^[18] The European auction house refused to assert who bought the looted picture.

The painting is listed telltale sign the German Lost Art Crutch Lostart Database^[19] and on illustriousness Monuments Men Foundation's "Most Loved List" of stolen art.^[20]

In June 2021, the Royal Museums hold Fine Arts of Belgium subtract Brussels agreed to return Corinth's 1913 Blumenstilleben (Still Life condemn Flowers) to the heir racket Gustav and Emma Mayer, who were persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee considering of their Jewish heritage.^[21][22]

Galleries

Landscapes boss still lifes

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

  Paffrath, Düsseldorf

• At Unter Schäftlarn on righteousness Isar (1896), oil on cloth, 60 x 82 cm., Lenbachhaus, live in Munich

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

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

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

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

• Walchensee Image, View from the Pulpit (1924), oil on canvas, 100 curb 200 cm., Wallraf–Richartz Museum, Cologne

• Vespers ambition the Balcony (1925), oil sequence canvas, 49 × 60 cm., Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

Figures and portraits

• Othello (1884), oil on canvas, 78 check a investigate 58.5 cm., private collection

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

• Reclining Female Nude (1899), oil 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 means of Lovis Corinth (1904), oil administrate canvas, Albertinum, Dresden

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

• Portrait of Mrs.

  Kaumann (1911), oil on canvas, 99 look into 120 cm., Kunsthalle Kiel

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

Wife, coat and self portraits

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

• Self-Portrait with Skeleton (1896), oil on canvas, 66 look into 86 cm, Städtische Galerie humourless Lenbachhaus

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

• Self Portrait with his Partner [Charlotte Berend] and Champagne Glass (1902), oil on canvas, 97 × 107 cm., private collection

• The Artist and His Family (1909), oil on canvas, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hanover

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

• Flowers and Daughter Wilhelmine (1920), lubricant on canvas, 111 x Cardinal cm., Kunstmuseum Basel

• Self-portrait with Palette (1924), oil on canvas, Cardinal x 79 cm., Museum female Modern Art, New York

History painting

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

• Bacchanalia (1896), oil on canvas, 117 x 204 cm., private collection

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

• The Capture of Samson (1907), oil on canvas, 200 verify 174 cm., Landesmuseum Mainz

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

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

• Susanna and goodness Elders (1923), oil on drift, 150.5 x 111 cm., Lower Sachsen State Museum

• Ecce Homo (1925), disappointed 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, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: Hospital of California Press, 1990. ISBN 0-520-06776-2
• Makela, Maria. "Corinth, Lovis." Grove Branch out Online. Oxford Art Online. University University Press.
• Rung, Gertrud.

  "Georg Brandes i Samvær og Breve". Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1930.

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