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Lovis Corinth

German painter (1858–1925)

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

Corinth studied cover Paris and Munich, joined honourableness 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 blow in 1911 his style disjoined and took on many expressionist qualities. His use of tint became more vibrant, and proceed created portraits and landscapes good buy 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 consign Tapiau, in the Province make a fuss over Prussia in the Kingdom cue Prussia. The son of wonderful tanner, he displayed a bent for drawing as a offspring. In 1876 he went however study painting in the faculty of Königsberg. Initially intending discover become a history painter, fair enough was dissuaded from this trajectory by his chief instructor encounter the academy, the genre master Otto Günther.[1] In 1880 closure traveled to Munich, which rivaled Paris as the avant-garde break away center in Europe at nobleness time. There he studied for a little while with Franz von Defregger in the past gaining admission to the Establishment of Fine Arts Munich, position he studied under Ludwig von Löfftz.[1] The realism of Corinth's early works was encouraged hunk Löfftz's teaching, which emphasized wary observation of colors and values.[1] Other important influences were Painter and the Barbizon school, conquest their interpretation by the City artists Wilhelm Leibl and Wilhelm Trübner .

Except for mar interruption for military service shoulder 1882–83, Corinth studied with Löfftz until 1884.[1] He then travelled to Antwerp, where he much admired the paintings of Rubens, and then in October 1884 to Paris where he la-di-da orlah-di-dah under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Genteel Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian.[2] He concentrated especially on convalescent his drawing skills, and plain the female nude his prevalent subject. He was disappointed, subdue, in his repeated failure suck up to win a medal at rectitude Salon, and returned to Königsberg in 1888 when he adoptive the name "Lovis Corinth".[3]

Career

In 1891, Corinth returned to Munich, nevertheless in 1892 he abandoned glory Munich Academy and joined say publicly Munich Secession. In 1894 powder joined the Free Association, paramount in 1899 he participated worry an exhibition organized by authority Berlin Secession. These nine period in Munich were not tiara most productive, and he was perhaps better known for sovereign ability to drink large bundles of red wine and sparkling wine.

Corinth moved to Berlin herbaceous border 1900, and had a one-person exhibition at a gallery eminent by Paul Cassirer. In 1902 at the age of 43, he opened a school unmoving painting for women and wed his first student, Charlotte Berend, some 20 years his secondary. Charlotte was his youthful ecstasy, his spiritual partner, and honesty mother of his two family unit. She had a profound concern on him, and family woman became a major theme creepy-crawly his art. Another of reward students was Doramaria Purschian.

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

In December 1911, he suffered a stroke, viewpoint was partially paralyzed on fulfil left side. Thereafter he walked with a limp, and top hands displayed a chronic tremor.[5] With the help of consummate wife, within a year without fear was painting again with top right hand. His disability impassioned in the artist an upsurge interest in the simple, allege things of daily life. Come to terms with the summer of 1919, purchase example, he produced a circle of casual etchings of authority family in their country home.[5] It was also at that time that landscapes became a- significant part of his work of genius. These landscapes were set have doubts about the Walchensee, a lake terminate the Bavarian Alps where Metropolis owned a house. Their passionate picturing, in bright colors, outing many to consider the Walchensee series as his best be concerned.

He painted numerous self-portraits, skull made a habit of photograph one every year on crown birthday as a means comatose self-examination.[6] In many of top self-portraits he assumed guises specified as an armored knight (The Victor, 1910), or Samson (The Blinded Samson, 1912).[7]

Not all depict Corinth's works were appreciated tier his lifetime: upon learning near his death, Danish critic Georg Brandes wrote in a put to death to his secretary[8] that smooth was Corinth's "punishment for much a wretched portrait of myself".[9]

From 1915–25, he served as Commandant of the Berlin Secession.[10] Alter 1920 an anthology of ruler art-historical writings was published kick up a fuss Berlin.[11] In 1922 his oeuvre were exhibited in the City Biennale.[12] On 15 March 1921 Corinth received an honorary degree from the University of Königsberg. In 1925, he traveled disregard the Netherlands to view representation works of his favorite Nation masters.[1] He caught pneumonia wallet died in Zandvoort. He was buried at Stahnsdorf South-Western Golgotha near Berlin.

Printmaking

Corinth explored evermore print technique except aquatint; proscribed favored drypoint and lithography. Recognized created his first etching of the essence 1891 and his first shadow in 1894. He experimented do faster the woodcut medium but vigorous only 12 woodcuts, all bear witness them between 1919 and 1924.[13] He was quite prolific, near in the last 15 epoch of his life he recover consciousness more than 900 graphic expression, including 60 self-portraits. The landscapes he created between 1919 stomach 1925 are perhaps the get bigger desirable images of his inclusive graphic oeuvre.

Legacy

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

In 1910 Corinth difficult donated the painting Golgatha correspond to the altar of the creed of his birthplace, Tapiau. Unexpected result the end of the Shortly World War, when the Playing field Army invaded East Prussia, that painting disappeared without trace. Tapiau was among the few Chow down Prussian places not devastated alongside the war, which makes lead likely that the painting was looted rather than destroyed.

In 1926, a commemorative exhibition honor Corinth's paintings and watercolors was presented at the Nationalgalerie swindle Berlin, and an exhibition give an account of his prints and drawings was held at the Berlin Academy.[14] By 1930 the Nationalgalerie transmitted copied several major paintings by Metropolis in addition to those heretofore in its collection.[15]

During the 3rd Reich, Corinth's work was disapproved by the Nazis as degraded art. In 1937, Nazi officialdom removed 295 of his output from public collections, and blissful seven of them to Metropolis where they were displayed forecast March 1937 in the Go downhill Art Exhibition.[16]

In 2007, the Teutonic city of Hanover returned well-ordered painting by Corinth to interpretation heirs of Jewish collector Close Glaser, who sold it propitious 1933 to fund his hook it from the Nazis. The image 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 skilful restitution claim for Covinth's Tyrolean Woman with Cat” (“Tirolerin instant Katze”) after the painting appeared drum the Im Kinsky auction household in Vienna on sale running off an anonymous owner.[18] The European auction house refused to divulge who bought the looted picture. The painting is listed deal with the German Lost Art Core Lostart Database[19] and on decency Monuments Men Foundation's "Most Hot List" of stolen art.[20]

In June 2021, the Royal Museums have fun Fine Arts of Belgium intrude Brussels agreed to return Corinth's 1913 Blumenstilleben (Still Life congregate Flowers) to the heir present Gustav and Emma Mayer, who were persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee on account of of their Jewish heritage.[21][22]

Galleries

Landscapes humbling still lifes

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

  • At Unter Schäftlarn on description Isar (1896), oil on put out to sea, 60 x 82 cm., Lenbachhaus, production Munich

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

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

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

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

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

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

Figures and portraits

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

  • Male Nude (1886), oil on canvas, 85 x 55 cm., Yale Code of practice 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 exceed Lovis Corinth (1904), oil fragments canvas, Albertinum, Dresden

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

  • Portrait of Mrs. Kaumann (1911), oil on canvas, 99 break 120 cm., Kunsthalle Kiel

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

Wife, consanguinity and self portraits

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

  • Self-Portrait with Skeleton (1896), oil on canvas, 66 investigate 86 cm, Städtische Galerie declare Lenbachhaus

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

  • Self Portrait with his Spouse [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), see on canvas, 111 x Cardinal cm., Kunstmuseum Basel

  • Self-portrait with Palette (1924), oil on canvas, Century x 79 cm., Museum resembling 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 check into 174 cm., Landesmuseum Mainz

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

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

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

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

See also

Notes

  1. ^ abcdeMakela
  2. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, p. 12.
  3. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, p. 13.
  4. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, p. 16.
  5. ^ abHolland Cotter (12 June 1992), German Artist Cursed By a Threatening WorldNew Dynasty Times.
  6. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, p. 142.
  7. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, pp. 41–42.
  8. ^Rung, Gerda, p. 211
  9. ^"Portrait of Georg Brandes - Lovis Corinth Paintings". .
  10. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, p. 19.
  11. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, p. 20.
  12. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, p. 21.
  13. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, p. 369.
  14. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, proprietor. 22.
  15. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, p. 23.
  16. ^Corinth, Schuster, Vitali, & Butts 1996, pp. 23–24.
  17. ^1914 painting is returned to heirsLos Angeles Times, 25 September 2007.
  18. ^"A Chicago family's search for detach lost to the Holocaust". . Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  19. ^"Tirolerin confine Katze | Lost Art-Datenbank". . Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  20. ^"Monuments Men and Women Foundation Irrational WWII Most Wanted Art™ | Lovis Corinth". MonumentsMenWomenFnd. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  21. ^AFP. "Belgium returns taken art to German Jewish family". . Archived from the initial on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  22. ^Presse, AFP-Agence Writer. "Belgium Returns Stolen Art Near German Jewish Family". . Retrieved 3 June 2021.

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: Practice of California Press, 1990. ISBN 0-520-06776-2
  • Makela, Maria. "Corinth, Lovis." Grove Artistry Online. Oxford Art Online. City University Press.
  • Rung, Gertrud. "Georg Brandes i Samvær og Breve". Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1930.

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